St. Louis County to conduct health surveys of residents near Bridgeton landfill, 02/21/2016
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St. Louis Public Radio by Stephanie Lecci An internationally recognized anti-nuclear activist and Australian physician said the radioactive contamination in north St. Louis County is “worse than most places” she’s investigated.
EXHIBITION DATES: February 1 -29, 2016 Meet The Artist Reception: Saturday, February 20, 2016 6-7 p.m. STLCC-WILDWOOD HOSTS SYMPOSIUM ON NUCLEAR WASTE AND OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS Leading experts on radioactive waste will discuss nuclear weapons development in a special symposium on Saturday, Feb. 20, from 6-9…
Examiner.com by Byron DeLear The inimitable Dr. Helen Caldicott will be traveling to Saint Louis to conduct a symposium on the health impacts of radioactivity and nuclear waste on Saturday, February 20th at St. Louis Community College-Wildwood. Recently, the radioactive West Lake Landfill in north…
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Robert Alvarez On July 16, 1973, 28 years to the day after the first nuclear weapon was exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico, a line of dump trucks containing the detritus from the uranium used to make plutonium for the test…
Ozarks First.com by Nick Thompson BRIDGETON, Mo. – The radioactive leftover by-product from the world’s first atomic weapons could make its way into the air in the Show-Me State. A contractor illegally dumped radioactive material into a North St. Louis county landfill in the early…
St. Louis Public Radio by Stephanie Lecci An activist group of St. Louis area moms concerned about underground smoldering at the Bridgeton Landfill plans to picket outside the Environmental Protection Agency’s Washington, D.C. offices on Wednesday.
OzarksFirst.com by Lindsay Clein ST. LOUIS, Mo. — It’s been nearly 71 years since atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but residents in one St. Louis suburb are still feeling the impacts of the radioactive waste left behind. “It doesn’t matter how old…
OzarksFirst.com by Nick Thompson HAZELWOOD, Mo. – Thousands of Missourians are paying the price today for their hometown’s role in producing the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. President Harry S. Truman, a Missouri native, decided to drop those bombs four months into his…
STL Today.com by Chuck Raasch WASHINGTON • Activists around the West Lake Landfill controversy have joined with those from the Flint, Mich., water crisis to put pressure on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to respond more forcefully to both. JUST MOMS stl, a group organized to force…
CBS – St. Louis by Kevin Killeen BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – A group of local moms who believe their children are suffering health problems from a landfill fire plead for help from the head of the EPA. “Our children are suffering from nose bleeds, and fatigue,…
St. Louis Public Radio by Stephanie Lecci In a move that environmental groups say they are “excited” and “pleasantly surprised” about, the Environmental Protection Agency said it plans to create a specific unit to study groundwater contamination at the West Lake Landfill Superfund site.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker St. Louis County Health Department workers will soon begin knocking on doors near the Bridgeton Landfill for a health survey of respiratory ailments there. The study would compare a randomized sample of residents living near the burning Bridgeton Landfill…
Examiner.com by Byron DeLear Many may not realize, but the original name for the Manhattan Project—the secret government initiative during World War II to make to the first atomic weapons—was the “Manhattan Engineering District.” The Army Corps of Engineers have been at the front of the American nuclear-narrative…
WASHINGTON D.C. (KMOX) — Experts said it would likely take an act of Congress, and that’s what’s happening — the U.S. Senate has passed a measure to transfer remediation of the West Lake Landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Army Corps of Engineers. The…
Fox2Now.com by Melanie Moon BRIDGETON, MO (KTVI) – Residents who live near West Lake Landfill are celebrating a huge decision by the U.S. Senate. Tuesday the senate transferred authority of West Lake from the EPA to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its cleanup…
S.2306 – A bill to require the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake remediation oversight of the West Lake Landfill located in Bridgeton, Missouri. http://democrats.senate.gov/2016/02/02/wrap-up-for-tuesday-february-2-2016/#.VrGnm7JrhaR
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker The Army Corps of Engineers could take over cleanup of the radioactive West Lake Landfill under a bill passed Tuesday by the U.S. Senate. Residents and activists have long pushed for oversight of the Bridgeton landfill’s cleanup to be…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.) today applauded Senate passage of their bill, S. 2306, to transfer remediation authority over the West Lake landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, putting the site in the…
Examiner.com by Byron DeLear In Part 1 of this series, we laid out the history the how the Manhattan Project produced over 125,000 tons of nuclear waste in St. Louis, Missouri which was stored out in the open at several sites. Between 43,000-48,000 tons of this…