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Sierra Club calls on EPA to enforce coal plant rules, highlighting Missouri facilities

2 years 8 months ago

Strengthening federal air pollution rules could force some of the nation’s “deadliest” coal plants to upgrade their facilities or retire them, according to a report released Thursday by the environmental advocacy group Sierra Club.  In some cases, just more stringent enforcement of existing standards could force changes.   The Sierra Club report urged the U.S. Environmental […]

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Allison Kite

The Warhol Decision: How SCOTUS Forgot The First Amendment & Turned Copyright Into A Liability Time Bomb

2 years 8 months ago
In his concurrence, Justice Gorsuch called the Supreme Court’s decision last week in the Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case a narrow one of statutory interpretation, ostensibly doing nothing more than interpreting the breadth of the first fair use factor (“the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial […]
Cathy Gellis

Dad’s Leather Jacket: Why Recovery-Friendly Workplaces Are Important

2 years 8 months ago
Editor’s Note:   Recently PreventEd, an agency working toward a community free of alcohol and other drug addiction, misuse, and related problems became the latest Missouri workplace to become designated a Recovery Friendly Workplace under a program developed by the University of Missouri Extension. During the ceremony marking the occasion Dr. Doug Swanson of UM Extension […]
Tom Finan

Raw data: LGBT households

2 years 8 months ago
According to the Wall Street Journal, same-sex couples account for 1% of all households nationwide. Of that, half are married and a little less than half are unmarried partners. The remainder live alone or in other arrangements.
Kevin Drum

Whitaker Music Festival Returns to the Botanical Garden on Wednesday

2 years 8 months ago
It's no exaggeration to say the Whitaker Music Festival is one of St. Louis' great summer traditions. Shaw residents may curse the crush of traffic for these free Wednesday concerts, but we happen to know people who've met their future spouse at one, people who brought kids who've now grown up to bring their kids, and more.
Sarah Fenske