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, 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 MoreAtomic City Update: STL Region Can’t Wake Up From Its Radioactive Nightmare
By Don Corrigan St. Louis has been dubbed “Atomic City” by environmental organizations across the country. And, in 2024, the St. Louis region once again got the short end of a poisonous radioactive stick due to its U.S. atomic legacy. The nation’s atomic bomb builders have used portions of St. Louis City and County, as…
Read More‘This is a moral failure.’ A Missouri community says leftover radioactive waste is making them sick
Health Updated on Dec 23, 2024 5:56 PM EDT — Published on Dec 20, 2024 4:49 PM EDT This might be one of the most powerful stories ever written about our radioactive waste legacy in the St. Louis Region. – Dawn Chapman – Just Moms STL. PBS NEWS: Full Story Here ST. LOUIS — Marie Farr…
Read MoreIs Nuclear Waste Poisoning This Missouri Suburb?
How 2 Moms Teamed Up for Answers, Even If They Die Trying A big thanks to People magazine!! We are both very honored to have been interviewed and to be able to share our story about this issue! Also, we want to say thank you to Lois Gibbs, for that very nice quote. We wouldn’t…
Read MoreHow a US health agency became a shield for polluters
Companies and others responsible for some of America’s most toxic waste sites are using a federal health agency’s faulty reports to save money on cleanups, defend against lawsuits and deny victims compensation, a Reuters investigation found. A Missouri neighborhood’s tale. By JAIMI DOWDELL, M.B. PELL, BENJAMIN LESSER, MICHELLE CONLIN, PHOEBE QUINTON and WAYLON CUNNINGHAM Filed Aug. 7, 2024, 11 a.m. GMT…
Read MoreRadioactive Waste in St. Louis at Risk From Smoldering Trash, 07/24/2014
The Wall Street Journalby John R. Emshwiller Updated July 24, 2014 1:19 p.m. ET Dawn Chapman, left, and Karen Nickel visit the West Lake landfill March 5. Ms. Chapman and Ms. Nickel are part of a watchdog group of residents concerned about the radioactive sites and the fire smoldering beneath the landfill. Sarah Conard for The Wall…
Read MoreSt. Louis burning: America’s atomic legacy haunts city, 04/29/2015
America.Aljazeera.comRyan Schuessler County parks, homes, businesses remain open and untested after decades of exposure to potentially contaminated creek This is part one of a three-part series examining the effects of radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project on St. Louis and its suburbs. HAZELWOOD, Mo. — Karen Nickel had never even heard of lupus before she…
Read MoreSt. Louis Burning: What killed the babies near Weldon Spring? 04/30/2015
Aljazeera Americaby Ryan Schuessler The grave of an infant who died in 2010 in the cemetery of Immaculate Conception Parish of Dardenne.Alexey Furman for Al Jazeera America This is part two of a three-part series investigating the effects of radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project on St. Louis and its suburbs. Part one examined the…
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