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Sustainability

Environmental Justice: Wyandotte County Seeks Solutions 

By | May 16, 2024 | 0
John Garland Park in Kansas City, Kansas, overlooks an industrial park.

Advocates in Wyandotte County are seeking environmental justice for communities paying the health care price for decades of industrial pollution.

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Bayer Pushes Roundup Protection Bill in Missouri 

By | May 15, 2024 | 1
A billboard with a farmer holding a laptop in rows of a crop. Text on the billboard reads "Don't let weeds win" and "takecontrolmissouri.com"

Bayer and the Modern Ag Alliance are pushing Missouri to pass a bill saying EPA labeling for farm chemicals like Roundup satisfies warning label requirements.  

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson Signs Bill to Kill South Kansas City Landfill

By | May 7, 2024 | 0
A sign across from the proposed landfill in south Kansas City implores drivers to help stop the project from moving forward.

Gov. Mike Parson has signed legislation designed to keep a landfill from moving into south Kansas City, ending a more than year-long effort to stop the project.

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Kansas City Faces Fight as Feds Ponder Sustainability Grants

By | May 7, 2024 | 0
A view of Kansas City's skyline.

The Kansas City area faces stiff competition as it seeks nearly $200 million in federal sustainability grants to fund projects to address climate change.

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Trees are Spreading Across the Great Plains, Making Climate Change Worse

By | May 6, 2024 | 0
Eastern red cedars are taking over grasslands in the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. In most temperate grasslands around the world, gaining a tree canopy won't help cool the planet.

We often think trees are good for the environment. But in the Midwest and Great Plains, they’re worsening climate change as woodlands take over grasslands.

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