CBS – St. Louis KMOX BRIDGETON (KMOX) – The owners of the burning Bridgeton Landfill lost their appeal of a state order to install a heat extraction barrier in the neck of the landfill, designed to slow the underground fire from reaching buried nuclear waste. The…
BREAKING NEWS AG Koster announces dismissal of Republic Services, Inc.’s appeal over installing heat-extraction cooling loops at Bridgeton Landfill April 13, 2016, 4:41 PM Jefferson City, Mo. – Attorney General Chris Koster announced today that the Administrative Hearing Commission has dismissed an appeal of the Missouri…
Missouri Department of Natural Resources Submitted to: Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill, Republic Services, Inc. Update Closure, Post-Closure and Submission of Corrective Action Plans and Financial Service, Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill, Permit Number 0118912, St. Louis County Excerpt:
The Examiner by Byron DeLear After the recent revelation of the Environmental Protection Agency“deciding” to remove offsite radwaste at the West Lake Landfill—something they’ve essentially denied existing for years—the beleaguered agency is now grasping at half-measured solutions in its handling of the smoldering, radioactive site. Due to a transfer-bill recently…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by the Editorial Board Residents near the West Lake and Bridgeton landfills are finally getting responses from the Environmental Protection Agency to their concerns about living next to a radioactive dumpsite precariously exposed to an advancing underground fire. After leadfooting it for years, the EPA…
St. Louis Public Radio by Stephanie Lecci The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is confirming that radioactive contamination has been found in soil “on private property” adjacent to the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton. Data released Friday shows two soil samples have levels of thorium higher than…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker The Environmental Protection Agency plans to clean up spots of dirt on private property just outside the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill. Testing from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources identified radioactive contamination on property beyond the landfill’s perimeter,…
Enviro News by Josh Cunnings Part 3 of a 15-Part Mini-Series Titled: Nuclear Power in Our World Today http://environews.tv/033116-st-louis-west-lake-landfill-a-runaway-ticking-nuclear-time-bomb/
KSDK.com by Kasey Nolen http://www.ksdk.com/mb/news/local/moms-meet-with-head-of-the-epa-about-landfill/111098788 http://www.ksdk.com/mb/news/local/moms-meet-with-head-of-the-epa-about-landfill/111098788
CBS St. Louis by Kevin Killeen ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Members of the West Lake Landfill Moms group meet with the head of the EPA in Washington, D.C., calling for a buyout of homes near the landfill, and transfer of the site from the EPA to…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker After almost a year of study, the Environmental Protection Agency says it believes it has completely mapped the extent of radioactive contamination at the West Lake Landfill. The findings come as the agency works to finalize plans for a barrierseparating…
Jefferson City, Mo. – Attorney General Chris Koster released the following statement on today’s report from the EPA: “Today’s report confirms that EPA has never had a clear picture of the extent of contamination at the West Lake landfill, and it is deeply concerning that it…
ABC News by the Associated Press Radioactive material buried near an underground fire at a suburban St. Louis landfill has been found in areas where it was previously not suspected, but there is no increased health risk to residents or workers, Environmental Protection Agency officials said…
Kmov.com St. Louis KMOV.com ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency for missing deadlines in its planned cleanup of the West Lake Landfill near St. Louis. Koster says in a letter to EPA officials that progress on…
St. Louis Public Radio.org by Durrie Bouscaren Missouri’s attorney general is publicly chiding the Environmental Protection Agency for its “repeated missed deadlines” in its oversight of radioactive contamination at the West Lake Landfill in north St. Louis County. An underground chemical reaction, commonly referred to as…
St. Louis Public Radio.org by Durrie Bouscaren Map of the West Lake Landfill PROVIDED BY THE EPA A federal proposal to remove the Environmental Protection Agency from the helm of remediation efforts at the West Lake Landfill is hitting some opposition in Washington, as an…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker Koster’s office says that Pelopidas, which Republic Services says it used to manage public relations, has “admissions” by Republic employees or contractors that the smoldering fire “will indeed reach the radiologically impacted materials at one or both of the…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker The Environmental Protection Agency is “well aware” of legislation approved by the U.S. Senate that would take away the agency’s jurisdiction over the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill. But an agency official on Wednesday night said the EPA will…
Earth Island.org by Lori Freshwater Radioactive waste from the nation’s atomic past could be connected to the high number of cancers and rare illnesses in North St. Louis County. Patricia Barry arrives at the St. Louis Bread Company to meet with me. I’d seen photos of…
Environmental Echo by Holly Shanks Crowd attending at the STLCC-Wildwood symposium “The Atoms Next Door” held February 20. “I toured the situation yesterday and my hair nearly fell out,” Dr. Helen Caldicott said. “I’ve never seen anything so **** dangerous.” The internationally renowned authority on the…
