Developer Brightfields Development LLC wants to make one of the largest solar projects in the Midwest out of the old Alcoa alumina refinery in East St.Louis IL. They’ve studied how to make East St.Louis into a viable 20 megawatt solar farm. The project will cost close to 100m, the farm will be able to supply enough electric to [...]
The City of St. Louis Refuse Division’s Recycling Program is working with and for you to reduce the amount of waste that we generate in the first place, reuse materials as many times as possible, recycle our resources, and buy products that are made with reused- and/or recycled-content. We’re providing a variety of information about [...]
Environmental activist are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to move whats been described as Cold War -era nuclear waste from a county landfill site called West Lake Landfill. The issue that’s being argued has many levels of engagement which all possibilities are being considered by scientist. A while ago it was decided that the best [...]
A 4.0 earthquake within the old New Madrid Seismic Zone somewhat quiet since its 8.0 earthquake shook the bejesus out Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky in 1811 & 1812, rattled everyone in southeast Missouri Tuesday morning at 3:58 a.m. no damage or injuries were reported. Funny how just recently we trained for such [...]
Today, Susan Trautman, Executive Director Great Rivers Greenway District presented the Gateway Bike Plan to the East/West Gateway Council of Governments.
During the past months there has been sightings of beautiful felines in the Missouri forest. The Missouri Department of Conservation has 17 confirmed sightings with the most recent being a mountain lion. The Lion was located by a trapper when he checked his traps in the Mark Twain National Forest in southeastern Missouri, the trapper called the Missouri Department of [...]
