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1996 Environment Stories

• 10/15/1996: Radio Story - Forest experts predict a spectacular fall.
• 10/ 8/1996: Radio Story - Missouri's water, soil, and park tax will be up for renewal Nov. 5. Supporters say the state needs it, others disagree.
• 10/ 7/1996: Newspaper Story - Background on conservation sales tax extension ballot issue.
• 9/12/1996: Radio Story - DNR has donated its two only horses to improve the St Louis mounted police.
• 9/ 6/1996: Radio Story - Sales tax for soil conservation and parks to appear on the November ballot.
• 9/ 5/1996: Radio Story - Conservation Department Predicting a Colorfull Fall
• 9/ 3/1996: Radio Story - Web worms attacking Missouri Trees
• 8/27/1996: Radio Story - Dove-hunting season opens Sept. 1.
• 5/18/1996: Environmentalists scored major victories in the 1996 session.
• 5/16/1996: Both the Senate and the House passed a bill regulating large hog farm operations.
• 5/15/1996: Senate Devotes Precious Time to Cockfighting
• 5/15/1996: Senators defeat amendment to make raising gamecocks illegal
• 5/14/1996: Senate debates killer roosters while other major issues sit on the sidelines.
• 5/ 9/1996: Non-married, same-sex pigs authorized to carry concealed weapons under legislative staffer's suggested bill.
• 5/ 9/1996: House reverses itself and rejects stronger regulation of flood-plain development.
• 5/ 7/1996: As the Missouri River nears its banks, the House debated creating an office of flood plain management (newspaper story).
• 5/ 7/1996: The House votes to toughen state control over development of flood plains.
• 5/ 6/1996: Rains of recent weeks aren't worrying state officials about serious flooding.
• 4/29/1996: With the Midwest Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact, Missouri's radioactive waste would be going to Ohio - eventually.
• 4/23/1996: Committee hears environmental secrecy protection bill on Earth Day.
• 3/28/1996: The hog-plant regulation bill wins preliminary House approval.
• 3/28/1996: House defeats giving cities more power to regulate billboards.
• 3/19/1996: Plan to expand state environmental protection programs slashed by House.
• 3/ 7/1996: Some Missouri drinking water may be unsafe.
• 2/28/1996: Farmers complain DNR doesn't report all pollution spills that endanger livestock.
• 2/20/1996: Urban-rural clash threatens sales tax for soil & parks.
• 2/20/1996: Missouri farmers rally for stricter regulations of the hog industry
• 2/14/1996: Fear of snakes prompts bill to legalize killing the things.
• 2/ 9/1996: Infobox on livestock plant regulation bills that have been filed.
• 2/ 7/1996: Senate protests state plan to restrict flood protection work.
• 2/ 5/1996: Proposals filed to give corporate polluters a break.
• 2/ 1/1996: State charges some businesses not checking safety of their drinking water.
• 1/30/1996: Business Pollution Secrecy Proposed
• 1/25/1996: Lawmaker proposes paying you for hitting a deer.
• 1/11/1996: Farmers & Sierra Club unite in fighting hog plants.