The Washington Timesby Jim Salter, The Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Environmental Protection Agency says there is no evidence of radiological contamination on the fields of a baseball complex near a suburban St. Louis Superfund site, despite private testing that raised enough concern to cause a youth tournament to relocate. The Cinco de…
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The Wall Street Journalby John R. Emshwiller Legacy of Atomic-Era Weapons Work in St. Louis Suburb Stirs Worries About Health, Environment BRIDGETON, Mo.—A dispute is smoldering here, in one sense quite literally, over what to do with thousands of tons of radioactive waste in a landfill in this suburban St. Louis town. Some residents argue…
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Rolling Stoneby Steven Hsieh An underground landfill fire near tons of nuclear waste raises serious health and safety concerns – so why isn’t the government doing more to help? There’s a fire burning in Bridgeton, Missouri. It’s invisible to area residents, buried deep beneath the ground in a North St. Louis County landfill. But the smoldering waste…
Read MoreMountain of Nuclear Waste Splits St. Louis and Suburbs
The New York Timesby Keith Schneider ST. LOUIS— Nearly half a century after a company here began processing fuel for nuclear weapons, St. Louis and several western suburbs are battling over a new disposal plan for millions of cubic yards of dirt contaminated with uranium, thorium, radium, actinium and other radioactive elements that are polluting the…
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