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…
Missouri Department of Natural Resources Bridgeton Landfill and West Lake Landfill Updated Analytical Results for Storm Water
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…
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St. Louis Community College – Wildwood Coordinator: Gwendolyn Verhoff Host: Ray Hartmann Guests: Helen Caldicott, Robert Alvarez, Denise Brock, Mark Harder, Sam Page Featuring: Christen Commuso, Chris Davis, Jason Hargrove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLlFRe197uQ
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.
Discovery.com by Patrick J. Kiger In the St. Louis area, a slow-burning underground fire is close to a vast store of nuclear waste buried in a federal Superfund site. The fire reportedly has been smoldering beneath a nearby landfill since at least 2010. The Washington…
The Washington Post by Darryl Fears Trevor Beckermann, 6, who suffers from the autoimmune disease alopecia areata, plays the board game Life with his mother Meagan Beckermann, 34, at home in Bridgeton, Mo. Meagan says the condition, which results in extreme hair loss, appeared after…
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…
ABC12.com by Peter Zampa WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – (02/09/16) – A coalition of moms traveled to Washington, D.C. to question the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) response to the water crisis in Flint, MI and a radioactive waste problem in a suburb of St. Louis, MO….
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…
