Category: Local News

TYT Politicsby Jordan Chariton, Reporterwith Dawn Chapman and Karen Nickel

St. Louis Post-Dispatchby The Editorial Board The Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement Thursday that test results showed no evidence of radioactive contamination in Bridgeton houses near the West Lake Landfill would have been more reassuring if EPA had not chosen a testing company that lists the landfill’s owner as a client. Republic Services owns West Lake…

St. Louis Post-DispatchBy Chuck Raasch WASHINGTON • Members of Missouri’s congressional delegation plan to re-introduce legislation Wednesday that would shift cleanup responsibility of the West Lake Landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, even though the Corps has said it doesn’t want it and the new EPA Director has…

Stella Maris Productions The EPA fudged its 2014 test results of the Bridgeton Athletic Complex, assuring the public that the ballfields were safe, while withholding data that warranted further investigation.  Internal EPA emails show the agency was aware that radiation levels at the Bridgeton Athletic Complex were above background levels, but failed to clearly alert…

KMOV4  BRIDGETON (KMOV.com) – According to a report by the State of Missouri, breathing air near the Bridgeton Landfill “may have been harmful.” More than 100 people gathered in Bridgeton Monday night to hear the report.  READ MORE

5 On Your Sideby Grant Bissell Radioactive waste will be removed from West Lake Landfill The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday a plan to dig up and haul out around 70 percent of the waste. READ MORE

St. Louis Post-Dispatchby Bryce Gray After years of bureaucratic inaction and escalating frustration and concern from the surrounding community, the Environmental Protection Agency has finally settled on a strategy to clean up the radioactive waste at the West Lake Landfill Superfund site in Bridgeton. Compared with a proposal from earlier this year, the selected remedy…

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KSDK – 5 On Your Sideby Grant Bissell ST. LOUIS – After a years-long battle, the owners of the Bridgeton Landfill in north St. Louis County will pay $16 million, in part to improve the health and safety in the area. A St. Louis County judge made the decision Friday afternoon. For people who’ve claimed…

St. Louis Post-Dispatchby Blythe Bernhard People who lived near or played in the contaminated Coldwater Creek in north St. Louis County from the 1960s to the 1990s may have an increased risk of developing certain cancers, a federal report has found.  READ MORE

St. Louis Public Radioby Lindsay Toler The head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund Task Force resigned Tuesday after one year in the role, leaving residents in northwest St. Louis County unsure about the fate of a proposal to clean up West Lake Landfill. Albert Kelly, former EPA senior advisor, did not immediately return a…