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8th Annual Statewide Environmental SummitThe following is a list of the main policy goals discussed at the 2009 Environmental Summit. Click the links to download the fact sheets that were distributed:
- Establish policies to improve Missouri's low Energy Efficiency ranking, such as:
- Statewide Energy Code: a minimum efficiency requirement for construction of new buildings
- Combined Heat and Power: enables industry to implement energy saving technology more efficiently
- Energy Efficiency Resource Standard: a simple market-based mechanism to encourage more efficient use of electricity and natural gas
- Address Climate Change through the federal legislation that will cap carbon pollution and expand clean, renewable energy.
- Making buildings more efficient through Green Building standards, such as:
- Requiring new state-funded construction projects to meet green building and energy efficiency standards
- Providing tax credits for homes built to green residential standards
- A Green Schools Caucus to serve as a catalyst for legislators to educate peers about the benefits of green schools
- Protect Public Lands by:
- Ensuring funding for vital capital improvements to maintain Missouri's excellent State Parks
- Continue local efforts to oppose development of the St. Louis Riverview Casino complex in the Missippi River floodplain
- Monitor development of a new General Management Plan for the Ozark National Scenic Riverways so that the park will be properly stewarded for future use
- Promote Solid Waste reduction by:
- Requiring recycling of televisions, which allows valuable materials to be reused and protects air and water from harmful metals by keeping TVs out of landfills
- Opposing efforts to allow yard waste in landfills for methane gas collection, which has poor recovery rates and releases a potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere
- Promote Sustainable Agriculture practices and protect water quality - require licensing of Poultry Manure haulers and documentation to track manure once it leaves a factory farm.
- Encourage sustainable and alternative modes of Transportation through:
- Complete Streets policy, which encourages transportation design with all transportation needs in mind - motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, the disabled, and the elderly
- Support funding initiatives for Public Transit