Environment Missouri's Sarah MacFarland makes the case for closing polluter-backed loopholes in the Clean Water Act and restoring protections to Missouri's streams.
Activists upset about the state of the Current River presented 5,000 petition signatures to the National Park Service Tuesday, some of them symbolically written on canoe paddles.
Leaders of about a dozen national and state environmental and outdoor groups gathered downtown today to call on the National Park Service to rehabilitate the Current River, which lies at the heart of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
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