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A federal proposal to remove the Environmental Protection Agency from the helm of remediation efforts at the West Lake Landfill is hitting some opposition…
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An internationally recognized anti-nuclear activist and Australian physician said the radioactive contamination in north St. Louis County is "worse than…
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An activist group of St. Louis area moms concerned about underground smoldering at the Bridgeton Landfill plans to picket outside the Environmental…
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The St. Louis County health department said a health survey of residents living near the West Lake and Bridgeton landfills will begin in about two weeks,…
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In a move that environmental groups say they are “excited” and “pleasantly surprised” about, the Environmental Protection Agency said it plans to create a…
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After two years of delay, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday that it will move ahead with plans to build a firebreak at a…
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One word comes to mind when we think about the environmental news that’s been a conversation starter in St. Louis in 2015: landfills. Specifically, what…
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You may have heard of the local group of nuns who go to Bridgeton to pray for and protest over the West Lake and Bridgeton landfills, which have been the…
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In the mid-1960s, trucks carrying radioactive waste left over from World War II began lumbering along the then-dirt road leading to what’s now the West…
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National update: Conflicts over risks of fire, nuclear waste, stoke fears of St. Louis Co. landfillsSt. Louis Public Radio has been following developments at a landfill complex in St. Louis County, where for five years an underground fire has been…