Radiation 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…

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Is 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…

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How 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…

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St. 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…

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