Mike Parson on Environment

	Mike Parson on Environment

Let the feds clean up their 80 years of radioactive waste

Gov. Mike Parson rejected a call to schedule a special session to provide state funding to investigate areas of the state exposed to radioactive waste. "This issue was caused by the federal government and should be fixed by the federal government," said a Parson spokesman. House Minority Leader Crystal Quade said lawmakers could take up the issue when they reconvene for their annual veto session.

At issue is a law signed by Parson designed to address the presence of radioactive material left over from the St. Louis region's role in creating the nuclear bomb. The law created the Radioactive Waste Investigation Fund. But it has never been funded. "The problems related with this waste have festered for nearly 80 years. It is well past time for us to finally resolving them for the sake of all Missourians," Quade wrote. The law called for the state to earmark $150,000 annually to allow environmental regulators to probe sites where radioactive material was dumped more than 40 years ago.

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch on 2024 Missouri Gubernatorial race , Aug 2, 2023

Right to farm & ranch, despite environmental critics

Two pieces of legislation Mr. Parson co-sponsored as a state lawmaker were an expansion of so-called Castle Doctrine and an amendment that added the right to farm and ranch to Missouri's Constitution. The amendment on farming states, "The right of farmers and ranchers to engage in farming and ranching practices shall be forever guaranteed in the state." Among its critics are environmental groups, which say the amendment made it harder to hold farmers to account for unsafe practices. Source: N.Y. Times on 2018 Missouri Gubernatorial race , May 29, 2018

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