ShareSenate Bill 135 was signed by Governor Jay Nixon on June 22. This is an omnibus bill pertaining to environmental protection, meaning it contains a number of provisions on unrelated issues but which all relate to the environment or environmental regulation.
You can view the whole bill here.

ShareDue to a 25 percent withholding in its fiscal year 2010 state appropriation, the State Historical Society of Missouri is decreasing its hours open to the public to Mondays through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., effective immediately. The Society will no longer be open for research on Fridays or Saturdays. The withholding ($364,010), [...]

Share There’s been much hay made in the media the last few days about the Missouri legislature inadvertently banning polyproplyene containers, not the expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) coolers they intended to from the state’s waterways (exception for Lake of the Ozarks, and the big rivers, where the legislature plays, of course.)