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ABC12.comby Peter Zampa WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – (02/09/16) – A coalition of moms traveled to Washington, D.C. to question the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) response to the water crisis in Flint, MI and a radioactive waste problem in a suburb of St. Louis, MO. The moms are worried for their families, who they say have…

The Washington Postby Darryl Fears Trevor Beckermann, 6, who suffers from the autoimmune disease alopecia areata, plays the board game Life with his mother Meagan Beckermann, 34, at home in Bridgeton, Mo. Meagan says the condition, which results in extreme hair loss, appeared after the family moved to Bridgeton, a St. Louis suburb located near…

Discovery.comby Patrick J. Kiger In the St. Louis area, a slow-burning underground fire is close to a vast store of nuclear waste buried in a federal Superfund site. The fire reportedly has been smoldering beneath a nearby landfill since at least 2010. The Washington Post reports that residents are afraid of what may happen if…

ABC Newsby the Associated Press Radioactive material buried near an underground fire at a suburban St. Louis landfill has been found in areas where it was previously not suspected, but there is no increased health risk to residents or workers, Environmental Protection Agency officials said Thursday. The EPA released the first phase report of an investigation of…

Enviro Newsby Josh Cunnings Part 3 of a 15-Part Mini-Series Titled:Nuclear Power in Our World Today http://environews.tv/033116-st-louis-west-lake-landfill-a-runaway-ticking-nuclear-time-bomb/

Seattle Mediumby Josh PetersonUrban News Service BRIDGETON, Mo. – Outside Ferguson, Missouri, another issue burns. This time, it’s environmental. An underground fire smolders toward radioactive waste tied to the atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This subterranean inferno threatens to sicken area residents, just 10 miles from the site of the controversial, police-involved death…

Occasional Planetby Gloria Shur Bilchik What happens when a landfill fire meets a radioactive waste dump?  St. Louis, Missouri, may be the first metropolitan area to find out. In North St. Louis County, near the St. Louis Airport, and a mile from Pattonville High School, the Westlake Landfill is on fire. It’s not a flaming,…

The Wall Street Journalby John R. Emshwiller About a mile from homes in Missouri’s St. Louis County lies a radioactive hot spot with contamination levels hundreds of times above federal safety guidelines. But there are no plans to clean it up. That is because the location, tainted with waste from atomic-weapons work done in local factories decades ago, has been deemed by…

The Viceby Amy Martyn What do you do when there’s 10,000 barrels of illegally dumped uranium two miles away from your home and the government tells you not to worry about it? Dawn Chapman and her family are stuck in an absurd and depressing situation:  Less than two miles from the Chapmans’ neighborhood in Bridgeton,…

Inside Climate Newsby David Hasemyer Agency says it will re-examine the formulas it uses, based on data provided by industry, and people near oil and gas sites hope that means cleaner air. ***This could be important for the flares at the Bridgeton Landfill.***A lot of Volatile Organic Compounds VOC’s are being produced by the fire.. …