Aljazeera America.com by Ryan Schuessler Statement on barrier between underground fire and radioactive waste comes after study shows contamination is spreading Those living near a landfill complex in suburban St. Louis where an underground fire is burning near Cold War-era nuclear weapons waste say they…
CBS St. Louis Help Send Just Moms STL to Washington, DC! Related story: Landfill Neighbors to Deliver Signatures to Governor’s Office Chapman says with so much uncertainty about the underground fires no one can say the landfills were ever under control.
NASDAQ.com Dow Jones Business News by John R. Emshwiller and Gary Fields Shutterstock photo Radioactive contamination from a St. Louis-area landfill containing nuclear-weapons-related waste likely has migrated off-site, according to a study published this week in a scientific journal. One of the authors of the…
Los Angeles Times by Associated Press The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the installation of an isolation barrier to make sure that an underground fire does not reach buried nuclear waste at a suburban St. Louis landfill. Mark Hague, EPA regional administrator, who…
AntiMedia.org Claire Bernish (ANTIMEDIA) St. Louis, MO — What happens when radioactive byproduct from the Manhattan Project comes into contact with an “underground fire” at a landfill? Surprisingly, no one actually knows for sure; but residents of Bridgeton, Missouri, near the West Lake and Bridgeton Landfills —…
St. Louis County Department of Public Health by Faisal Khan, MBBS, MPH, Director The Legacy of the Manhattan Project in St. Louis: Cancer Concern?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it would require a barrier separating the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill from the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill. It’s a decision that has been under consideration for more than two years. “Based on…
The Examiner.com by Byron DeLear Today, a new peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity concludes there is “strong evidence” that radioactive substances are in a constant state of offsite migration from the West Lake Landfill. Specifically, numerous soil, dust, and sediment samples…
STL Today.com Blythe Bernhard Storm water runoff at the West Lake Landfill Superfund site in Bridgeton. Photo courtesy state Rep. Bill Otto. Storm water runoff from the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill will be tested for contamination, state officials said Tuesday. The water on Monday poured over…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by the Editorial Board The let’s-keep-radioactive-waste-buried-in-Bridgeton crowd is not what it’s pretending to be. More than a group of concerned citizens who say they don’t want contaminated waste transported through their communities, the righteously named “Coalition to Keep Us Safe” is a political campaign…
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity by Marco P.J. Kaltofen, Robert Alvarez, Lucas Hixson December 7, 2015 Tracking Legacy Radionuclides in St. Louis, Missouri, via Unsupported 210Pb
ABC St. Louis.com by Brian Mattix Host Jamie Allman Guest: Dawn Chapman ST. LOUIS (KDNL/The Allman Report) – People who live near the Westlake Landfill near Bridgeton have been voicing concerns over radiation levels there for months. Now, they await the results of an independent…
STL Today.com Blythe Bernhard, Jacob Barker The lobbying arm of the company that owns the radioactive West Lake Landfill has escalated its efforts to keep the waste buried in Bridgeton. New ads on local radio and social media, and telemarketing calls and emails from a…
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Veterans Today by Bob Nichols St. Louis and the Rad Problem St. Louis, now and forever more, will be remembered as a Manhattan Project nuclear garbage dump. It was for the most poisonous, flammable elements in the universe that just happen to also be radioactive….
cbsnews.com AP ST. LOUIS — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday ordered surface fire prevention measures at a St. Louis-area landfill where nuclear waste was illegally dumped four decades ago. The order by EPA Region 7 Administrator Mark Hague requires companies associated with West Lake Landfill in…
C-span.org At 10:20 minutes, Rabbi Susan Talve of Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis states: “And I stand here for two groups of St. Louis Moms, one working to get guns off our streets and the other Working to help clean up the fires of…
St. Louis Public Radio Veronique LaCapra The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has found more radioactive contamination along a north St. Louis County creek. The latest round of sampling detected radioactive soil at three homes and four businesses near Coldwater Creek. That’s in addition to…
The Current (UMSL) by Sarah Bell Heated questions came from large crowd at landfill meeting It may not come as a surprise to many that radioactive waste has been detected at a site in St. Louis. St. Louis was the site of many of the…
Monthly Meeting of Citizens to discuss information about West Lake Landfill (Radioactive Nuclear Waste) and Bridgeton Landfill (Fire), Sponsored by Just Moms STL. This month the discussion was on the Legislation introduced in the House by Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO) and Rep. Ann Wagner…
