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Missouri bill targeting DNR clears House committee, still faces uncertain future
Allison Kite
Missouri Independent
Supporters say the changes are needed to rein in an aggressive Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
A Missouri House committee advanced a sweeping bill environmentalists say would hamper the state’s ability to enforce clean air and water laws. But several amendment votes could undermine the bill’s prospects in the Senate.
The House Emerging Issues Committee voted 7-4 Wednesday in favor of a bill that places various limitations on Missouri’s environmental regulators and removes three counties near St. Louis from a federal air quality program, an action that could cost the state $52 million in lost federal proceeds.
Missouri bill targeting DNR clears House committee, still faces uncertain future
Allison Kite
Missouri Independent
Supporters say the changes are needed to rein in an aggressive Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
A Missouri House committee advanced a sweeping bill environmentalists say would hamper the state’s ability to enforce clean air and water laws. But several amendment votes could undermine the bill’s prospects in the Senate.
The House Emerging Issues Committee voted 7-4 Wednesday in favor of a bill that places various limitations on Missouri’s environmental regulators and removes three counties near St. Louis from a federal air quality program, an action that could cost the state $52 million in lost federal proceeds.
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Missouri House votes to give final approval to feral hog legislation; bill to be tweaked in Senate
Legislation boosting criminal penalties for those who knowingly release feral hogs into the wild is heading to the Missouri Senate, after receiving final House approval on Thursday. The bipartisan vote was 108-38.
State Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville), who chairs the Missouri House Agriculture Policy Committee, speaks on the House floor on April 27, 2021 (photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications)
“When you have groups like the (Missouri) Farm Bureau and the (Missouri) Department of Conservation and soybeans and corn all working together and saying let’s give this a try. Let’s do everything we can do to help eradicate an invasive species,” McCreery says.
Missouri bill targeting environmental protections moves ahead in House
Allison Kite
Missouri Independent
Missouri legislators are moving forward with an effort to loosen the state’s environmental regulations that critics contend could harm the state’s water and air and its budget.
Business groups and Republican lawmakers say the bill would help businesses that are treated unfairly by an “aggressive” Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
“At the end of the day, these are attacks on businesses and individuals,” Sen. Eric Burlison, a Battlefield Republican, told colleagues during a Senate committee hearing earlier this year.
The legislation, Senate Bill 40, limits state agencies’ ability to set fees for environmental permits and bars DNR from enforcing any hazardous waste regulations that are stricter than federal rules set by the Environmental Protection Agency.