The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday ordered a long-awaited cleanup of a Superfund site northwest of St. Louis, saying residents...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new plans Thursday to partially remove toxic waste from a decades-old nuclear site in Missouri, a decision that highlights Administrator Scott Pruitt's vow to make Superfunds a 2018 priority...
In a decision that was decades in the making, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursdays that it plans to partial excavation of the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Bridgeton...
Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is one of the bright lights of the Trump administration...
In the vast doom-laden world of green activism, there’s no stronger advocate for environmental regulations than the humble mother...
Until our tiresome, bickering leaders in the capital city can sort out how to fix the costly, ObamaCare-exacerbated disaster that is America’s health insurance market, my husband and I are looking for creative ways to afford health-care coverage...
For decades, the St. Louis region has been working to deal with the legacy waste from the Manhattan Project testing that occurred in our region. Several sites have been or continue to be remediated...
Professional protestors want the government to excavate an entire landfill and move it through rural Missouri, at your expense. The crazy thing is – even the EPA says the legacy waste materials from the Manhattan Project are safest where they are...
It’s been a firestorm since St. Louis Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal said she wished Donald Trump would be assassinated. Everyone and their uncle has called for her resignation.
Analysis has shown that radioactivity found in stormwater runoff from West Lake Landfill could not be linked to decades-old radioactive waste at the site, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources says.
For 25 years, the West Lake Landfill located in Bridgetown, Missouri has been on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund priority list — to cleanup nuclear waste illegally dumped there in 1973. EPA Director Scott Pruitt vowed ...
The results of EPA's residential sampling in the Spanish Village neighborhood of Bridgeton, Mo., conducted the week of Dec. 26, 2016, show no Manhattan Project waste was found and no further action under CERCLA is warranted where the sampling was conducted...
Meanwhile, Pruitt said Wednesday that while former President Barack Obama was considered "an environmental savior," the EPA did not take steps "at all" to clean up numerous sites around the country, posing "great risk" to citizens in those areas...
With the state budget facing a potential $700 million shortfall, Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal has filed legislation hoping to see the state buy north of 90 homes, totaling almost $13 million, near the West Lake Landfill...
Giving the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authority over West Lake Landfill won’t speed up the removal of radioactive contamination, according to a top corps official...
The St. Louis region has been stuck with nuclear waste ever since it helped give the United States the atomic bomb in the 1940s. But concern about the risks of radioactive contamination has spiked recently.
Giving the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authority over West Lake Landfill won’t speed up the removal of radioactive contamination, according to a top corps official...
A conflation of facts between the West Lake Landfill and Coldwater Creek may be helping to fuel fears about the landfill...
This migrating heat pocket is the “fire” you keep reading about in the headlines, but there’s no flame — and no oxygen to speak of down there to feed it...
When you arrive at the Bridgeton Landfill just off St. Charles Rock Road, you see them right away, signs indicating a potential hazard. This is where the West Lake Landfill operating unit one is located. It`s also where radioactive material is buried...
Emergency plans that were released by nearby school districts and St. Louis County about the Bridgeton Landfill got some parents very worried...
It’s the close of the season, and the Bridgeton Municipal Athletic Complex is pretty quiet now, save for the sounds of airplanes passing overhead...
An oncologist at the Siteman Cancer Center said an explosion could not occur if an underground fire at the Bridgeton Landfill reaches radioactive waste at the West Lake Landfill...
It has hundreds of families living in fear and school districts preparing for nuclear emergencies. But on Tuesday, the owner of two controversial landfills in north St. Louis County said there is no reason to be alarmed...
The owner of the Bridgeton and Westlake landfills continues to say there is no danger at either spot. Russ Knocke, the VP of Communications & Public Affairs at Republic Services appeared on the Allman Report last week claiming that it's all hysteria and offered our reporter Aisha Khan a tour...
Residents in St. Charles County are familiar with seeing trains. Locomotives roll through the county several times a day, but a topic under discussion involving the Westlake Landfill has some on edge...
Concern and controversy over the Bridgeton and West Lake landfills continues to swirl as nearby residents demand nuclear waste dumped at West Lake be removed...
News 4's Russell Kinsaul gets an up close look at the two landfills at the center of controversy and anger...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency manages the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site and I would like to take a moment to speak with you and your families about the site. It is vitally important to all of us at the EPA that those who live in the areas around the West Lake Landfill know and understand the science-based facts regarding the contamination and what current risks the wastes may pose...
I want to assure you that we at the Environmental Protection Agency are committed to protecting public health from the radiological contamination buried at the West Lake Landfill. Numerous studies by federal and state partners demonstrate that there is no current offsite health risk...
The EPA said it "strongly disagrees" with reports from Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster that assert the underground fire in Bridgeton Landfill is not under control...
A federal report shows no off-site human health risk from radioactive waste at the West Lake Landfill...
A health consultation conducted by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a part of the U.S. Health and Human Services, shows that groundwater, air, and soil data do not indicate a health risk to communities surrounding the West Lake Landfill...
The underground fire at the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site does not produce air pollution that exceeds hazardous standards, the regional head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday...
The subsurface fire at Bridgeton Landfill has raised a big question since it was discovered four years ago: What happens if it comes into contact with radioactive waste dumped nearby?...
A new report from the owners of the Bridgeton Landfill finds little risk to public health even if an underground chemical reaction spreads to the adjacent West Lake Landfill and the radioactive waste illegally dumped there 40 years ago...
Beyond radioactive waste, burning trash and dangerous chemicals, there's another risk that could hamper construction of a protective barrier between Bridgeton and West Lake landfills...
Consultants hired by Republic Services, owners of the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill, said a new analysis of temperatures and emissions shows the underground fire at the landfill is not growing nor moving toward radioactive waste...
Railroads have been hauling more than a dozen trains weekly through Missouri carrying volatile crude oil from the Northern Plains that has been involved in multiple fiery accidents, according to railroad disclosures released Thursday...
Construction has been almost nonstop at the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill this year, with workers laboring even during a frigid January to build the treatment plants and filtering systems that keep the worst of the odors at bay...
The sound of rumbling trains and trucks throughout Buchanan County has raised the curiosity of local officials. With oil exploration increasing in areas to the north, the Buchanan County Local Emergency Planning Committee wants to learn more about what is being transported through the city...
Eighty-seven hundred tons of leached barium sulfate -- that's how much of this low-level radiological material was dumped at the West Lake Landfill, in Bridgeton...
Cooper County officials are strongly opposed to the potential transport of radioactive waste from a site in St. Louis to its final destination in Utah...
BRIDGETON, MO (KTVI) – A new coalition sponsored by the Bridgeton Landfill LLC and Rock Road Industries, Inc. is seeking a quick sensible solution for the handling of the radioactive material that currently stored at the West Lake Landfill. They are advocating the encasing the radioactive materials at the landfill ...
Encasing the Rad Material On-Site Safer and Better Option Than Excavation ...
On Friday morning, NPR reported that 13 employees at the only dedicated nuclear waste dump in the U.S. had inhaled radioactive material after a major accident earlier this month ...
The state of Missouri has taken the lead by requiring Republic Services to control odors coming from the Bridgeton Landfill and to successfully ...
A study conducted for the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that the underground fire plaguing part of the Bridgeton Landfill site isn’t a hazardous threat, even if it reaches radioactive material stored at a neighboring landfill....
The Missouri Torch continues to receive attention for recent coverage of possible fixes for the radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri...
The Missouri Torch has been following the ongoing saga of environmental extremists' intent to change EPA policy on an over 30-year-old issue in St. Charles County. As we’ve previously uncovered, a new and growing effort is erupting to force a change of jurisdiction in the matter, potentially causing radioactive waste to be moved through the state of Missouri to other locations. Consequently, as these pitfalls came to life, The Torch covered the story of waning support from co-sponsors while also detailing the local Council’s intent to unload the issue on all of Missouri and taxpayers...
The St. Charles County Council will soon be considering a resolution supporting an effort to haul radioactive waste through the county. The Missouri Torch previously reported that as details emerged about the program, co-sponsor Rep. Glen Kolkmeyer (R – Lafayette County) abandoned his support...
(Lenexa, Kan., Sept. 20, 2013) - EPA Region 7 is welcoming a commitment by Republic Services, Inc., to construct an isolation barrier at the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Bridgeton, Mo., Regional Administrator Karl Brooks said today...
(Lenexa, Kan., May 29, 2013) - A March 2013 aerial survey of the West Lake Landfill at Bridgeton, Mo., has determined that radiologically-contaminated wastes buried there in the 1970s remain contained within secure, fenced areas of the Superfund site, and do not pose public health risks, according to a report issued today by EPA Region 7...
