Emily Woodbury – St. Louis Public Radio , February 17, 2025 Dawn Chapman is frustrated that it’s taken decades for the agency to announce what community members — many of whom have died or suffered illness from the exposure — knew for years. Listen to the Interview here – Listening Time 36:19
Read MoreTwo Miles Out
Poem by Emily Doss Jacobi October 2015 This poem was given to me a decade ago by a resident living next to West Lake Landfill and it remains on display 10 years later. Every morning I get up, read it, and allow it to remind me why we fight so hard! – Dawn Chapman –…
Read MoreNew Regional Administrator at Region 7 EPA.
Jim Macy to become EPA Region 7 Administrator. Macy will lead the implementation of the President’s environmental agenda in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and nine tribal nations. Read more: https://spgv.io/6189peT
Read MoreJust Moms STL on the Radio in St. Louis
You can listen to our KMOX interview we did this this morning on the Chris and Amy show. Many topics related to West Lake Landfill were covered- including what is happening with RECA. – Just Moms STL – February 3, 2025 The Fight for West Lake Landfill Cleanup
Read MoreNew EPA Administrator
It’s official- we have a new EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. In the decade plus we have been doing this, he is our 6th Administrator of EPA. We will reach out and offer to work with him like we have all the others before him on securing a clean up at our site. West Lake Landfill…
Read MoreJust Moms STL – January 2025 – Local and National Stories
Lee Zeldin was sworn in as the 17th Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency on January 29, 2025- About Link ‘High likelihood’ of radioactive waste in smoldering landfill, Missouri officials say By: Allison Kite – January 22, 2025 8:09 pm GREAT NEWS! Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Eric Schmidt and Senator Lujan are reintroducing RECA today in…
Read MoreJust Moms STL – Post – January 22, 2025
A new letter was just released last week from DNR to EPA that states they want EPA to take over the entire site because of “the high probability of radiological materials in the Bridgeton Landfill.” For those who don’t know, part of Bridgeton Landfill is where the fire is currently happening. Most of you probably…
Read MoreMissouri Department of Natural Resources Letter the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7
Here is the letter from DNR written last week to EPA asking them to take over the entire site and stating “high probability of radiological materials in Bridgeton Landfill.” Just Moms STL January 22, 2025
Read MoreCost to clean up radioactive West Lake Landfill outside St. Louis nears $400 million
By: Allison Kite – January 17, 2025 3:11 pm Removing radioactive waste from the West Lake Landfill will cost nearly $400 million after federal officials discovered the contamination was far more widespread than previously known, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday. Read Full Story Here
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 MoreJust Moms STL – New Year’s Wish List
All, Our 2024 was marked by progress and new partnerships, by a daunting amount of time away from home, and new national recognition that the federal government has treated St. Louis and St. Charles badly—ignoring, lying about, and bungling the cleanup of the radioactive material it brought here. As readers of this page, you have…
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