Per EPA Region 7 – Update on WEST LAKE LANDFILL August 14, 2025 Starting July 21, the Potentially Responsible Parties began sampling existing cores from previous remedial design activities for pre-excavation confirmation sampling purposes. As of August 12, all samples from 138 archived borings onsite have been collected. The next phase is scheduled to begin…
Read MoreWe did it! RECA has passed and was signed in to law. We will now be downwinders!!!
We did it! RECA has passed and was signed in to law. We will now be downwinders!!! We know the bill it was attached to brings a lot to process. But for our CommUnity, this is long-overdue justice finally breaking through. Dawn and Karen are shifting gears and will be working to get the application…
Read MoreWe lost a wonderful friend and one of our champions today. Robert (Bob) Alvarez has passed away.
We are absolutely devastated to share with you all that we lost a wonderful friend and one of our champions today. Robert (Bob) Alvarez has passed away. We don’t have enough space in this post to begin to talk about all the ways he supported not just the STL radioactive waste issues, but communities as…
Read MoreJust Moms STL – Community Meeting – March 27, 2025 – Postponed – New date is TBD
***Update- Meeting Postponed*** All,We have received your feedback that based on the predicted storms/potential for more severe weather tomorrow along with the ongoing clean up from the tornado that occurred last week, many of you cannot make the meeting scheduled tomorrow. We have decided to reschedule it for another time. Our hearts are with all…
Read MoreRobert F. Kennedy Jr. will come to St. Louis to visit the sites affected by nuclear waste.
By First Alert 4 Staff Published: Mar. 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM CDT|Updated: 8 hours ago Story Link ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – Missouri Senator Josh Hawley announced that U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will come to St. Louis to visit the sites affected by nuclear waste.Sen. Hawley made the…
Read MoreRadiation exposure victims fight for compensation as nuclear weapons funding soars
By Chloe Shrager | March 19, 2025 Nine months have passed since the law that compensates US victims of radiation exposure expired in June, and yet another opportunity to reinstate it fell to the wayside last week. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), enacted in 1990, provided pay-outs to people unwittingly exposed to radioactive substances from the…
Read MoreEPA Administrator’s Visit to Missouri Superfund site – West Lake Landfill
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin continues to visit communities across the country to see firsthand the work EPA does throughout America. Earlier this week, he was in St. Louis, MO with Senator Josh Hawley to tour Superfund Sites – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Facebook Thank you EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for…
Read MoreEPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin’s meeting with Community
Here is a powerful video put together by Senator Josh Hawley about EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s visit to West Lake Landfill and Coldwater Creek. – Just Moms STL – March 18, 2025 – 1:39 pm
Read MoreNew EPA head pledges more resources to address St. Louis area radiation contamination
BY Gregg Palermo St. Louis PUBLISHED 4:47 PM CT Mar. 17, 2025 BRIDGETON, Mo.—The new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pledging additional resources to the effort to clean up the Superfund site at the West Lake landfill as the St. Louis region continues to grapple with the legacy of nuclear contamination dating back to…
Read MoreEPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin visits West Lake Landfill and Coldwater Creek
After a long exhausting weekend of tornado activity, we jumped right into a very important day for this community! A big thank you to Senator Josh Hawley for arranging and inviting us to meet with Administrator Lee Zeldin! Administrator Zeldin made good on his promise to come visit the West Lake Landfill site and he…
Read MoreThey had a fairytale American childhood – but was radiation slowly killing them?
Sophie Williams – BBC News, Washington DC – March 16, 2025 – Article Link Thank you Sophie Williams and BBC News for covering our story and spotlighting the importance for the expansion of RECA to include those of us in Missouri!! – Karen Nickel – Just Moms STL
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