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2000 Environment Stories

• 12/ 6/2000: Radio Story - In prefiled legislation, Senator Stephen Stoll has asked for Bird Day to be revived in Missouri.
• 11/29/2000: Newspaper Story - Groups on both sides of Proposition A, which would have limited the number and type of billboards in Missouri, said they plan to bring similar legislation before the General Assembly in the legislative session that begins in January.
• 10/24/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri Department of Conservation along with Missouri Insurance Information Services join to inform the motorists of the state.
• 10/16/2000: Radio Story - The U.S. Fisheries and Wildlife Department has designed a plan to change the flow of the Missouri River in order to help three species of animals survive. However, the Missouri Natural Resources Department was not consulted.
• 10/16/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's farmers have a stake in the outcome of Proposition A on the Nov. 7 ballot, a measure that would infringe on their property rights.
• 10/12/2000: Newspaper Story - The campaign to restrict billboards launches a series of news conferences attacking their opponents' TV ads.
• 10/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's billboard industry is fighting for its life in this year's election -- if Proposition A passes, construction of new billboards in Missouri will be banned.
• 9/25/2000: Radio Story - Due to Western wildfires and drought, the habitat of migrant humming birds have been destroyed, forcing the birds to possibly fly Eastward into Missouri.
• 9/21/2000: Newspaper Story - Monarch butterflies, some of whom migrate more than 2,000 miles to winter in Mexico, are moving through Missouri by the thousands this fall.
• 9/20/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri once again has been selected as a state through which high level nuclear waste will be shipped.
• 9/13/2000: Radio Story - After avoiding Missouri this summer, Missouri is back on the federal map for nuclear waste shipments.
• 9/ 6/2000: Radio Story - The MissouriTransportation and Conservation departments say they are not be affected by the Firestone recall.
• 8/29/2000: Newspaper Story - Mental health experts say the current heat spell in Missouri can cause problems for the mentally ill.
• 8/28/2000: Radio Story - Missouri will have two seasons for shooting doves this year.
• 8/28/2000: Newspaper Story - The symbol of peace will be a target for shotguns in Missouri.
• 8/23/2000: Newspaper Story - Ralph Nader's Green Party was certified for Missouri's November ballot.
• 4/13/2000: Newspaper Story - The House Energy and Environment Committee approved Thursday a resolution that urges the federal government to select another route for spent nuclear fuel that is expected to pass through Missouri this summer.
• 4/ 5/2000: Radio Story - Missouri's governor says he won't initiate a ban on the harmful chemical until the federal government takes action.
• 3/30/2000: Radio Story - Republicans call for a state ban on MTBE, but Democrats say there's not enough ethanol to go around.
• 3/29/2000: Radio Story - Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan is calling for a national ban on the reformulated gasoline additive MTBE.
• 3/14/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon filed suit Tuesday against a Kraft subsidiary, Columbia Foods, because they have allegedly been illegally dispoing of hot dog casings in the Boone County area.
• 2/28/2000: Radio Story - Representative Morris Westfall has proposed a bill that would make the Conservation Department responsible for damages caused by elk. There are no wild elk in Missouri, but a study is being conducted to see if the state has a suitable habitat for the animal.
• 2/28/2000: Newspaper Story - A bill currently under review in the state legislature would clean up solvents at abandoned dry cleaning sites, but might indirectly affect the consumer.
• 2/22/2000: Radio Story - Truckers protest rising diesel prices in the nations capital. OPEC has increased the price of crude oil since it cut production last year. A Missouri Representative says it's time we try something else.
• 2/ 2/2000: Radio Story - Rep. Peter Myers has filed a bill to require ethanol be used instead of the chemical MTBE.
• 1/26/2000: Newspaper Story - Although the ground wasn't covered in a blanket of snow, students still woke up to the happy sounds of 'no school today.'
• 1/20/2000: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan opposes the transportation of nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain via Missouri's highways and rail lines.
• 1/20/2000: Newspaper Story - The U.S. Dept. of Energy is accepting comments on a proposal that would include transporting thousands of tons of nuclear waste through Missouri.