The Missouri ELP is a working draft intended to provide guidance for organizations, agencies and businesses interested in furthering environmental literacy in Missouri. The plan identifies the most promising avenues for advancing environmental literacy and outlines strategies, objectives and actions for proceeding.

In July 2009 the working group met with delegations from Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska at a summit in Nebraska City. The first draft of the action plan was created and brought back to each state to work on.The Missouri leadership team worked on each of the six elements to move them forward and then met again in the summer of 2010 to pull an intial draft together.In April 2011 Jenna Rhodes and Jan Weaver met to incorporate suggestions and to realign the goals, strategies and action items. The revised plan was submitted to the working group members in June, and only modest grammatical corrections were suggested. In July 2011, the draft plan was submitted to the MEEA board, which approved it for distribution for feedback and comment.