St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jacob Barker A federal judge is sending Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster’s environmental lawsuit against the owner of the Bridgeton Landfill back to St. Louis County Circuit Court. In October, Republic Services, the owner of the burning Bridgeton Landfill and the adjacent…
KSDK.com by Jacob Long A demonstration is getting underway in Bridgeton over radioactive waste that was illegally dumped in North St. Louis County. http://www.ksdk.com/mb/news/local/protestors-concerned-about-westlake-landfill/141575001
CBS St. Louis by Brett Blume BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – There’s a new group entering the fray surrounding the underground fire near nuclear waste at the West Lake landfill in Bridgeton. Citing what she calls “deteriorating conditions” at the site, Susan Lorel Folle and her fellow…
KSDK.com by Jacob Long http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/landfill-demonstrators-face-off-against-epa/141897388
Occasional Planet by Gloria Shur Bilchik What happens when a landfill fire meets a radioactive waste dump? St. Louis, Missouri, may be the first metropolitan area to find out. In North St. Louis County, near the St. Louis Airport, and a mile from Pattonville High…
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…
Seattle Medium by Josh Peterson Urban News Service By Josh Peterson Urban News Service BRIDGETON, Mo. – Outside Ferguson, Missouri, another issue burns. This time, it’s environmental. An underground fire smolders toward radioactive waste tied to the atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This…
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…
