PRESS RELEASE Date: September 3, 2015 Contact: Ed Smith, (314) 727-0600, esmith@moenviron.org Radioactivity Found Offsite Near West Lake Landfill St. Louis, MO: Attorney General Chris Koster released expert reports today related to his lawsuit against Republic Services and its smoldering West Lake Landfill. Particularly concerning is the discovery of radioactive materials in offsite vegetation. The…
Read MoreConcern Grows About Smoldering Fire Moving Toward Radioactive Wastes at West Lake Landfill
PRESS RELEASE Date: August 17, 2015 Contact: Ed Smith, (314) 727-0600, esmith@moenviron.org Concern Grows About Smoldering Fire Moving Toward Radioactive Wastes at West Lake Landfill St. Louis, MO: On August 10, 2015, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources issued a letter to Republic Services that expressed great concern about the smoldering fire moving into the…
Read MoreEditorial: Corps of Engineers should FUSRAP-up West Lake’s toxic waste
from the St. Louis Post-DispatchAugust 9, 2015 The best solution for cleaning up radioactive waste buried at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton is to give control of the site to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The corps runs the tongue-twistingly named Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), which controls every other site in St. Louis County…
Read MoreGroups Applaud Bipartisan Call for DOE Review of the West Lake Landfill
PRESS RELEASE July 22, 2015 Contact: Dawn Chapman (Just Moms STL) 314-739-7634 Heather Navarro (Missouri Coalition for the Environment) 314-808-4345 Gale Thackrey (Franciscan Sisters of Mary) 618-304-2660 Groups Applaud Bipartisan Call for DOE Review of the West Lake Landfill St. Louis, MO: People and organizations following the ongoing issues at the West Lake Landfill applaud the…
Read MoreOfficials Tell EPA: Call the Corps on West Lake Landfill
Senator Blunt, Senator McCaskill, Congressman Clay and Congresswoman Wagner, representing constituents in the St. Louis region, have sent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks a letter asking EPA to contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the West Lake Landfill. The letter states: “The St. Louis Corps’ handling of…
Read MoreNuclear Reactor Fuel Storage Poses Huge Risks
New Study Shows Even a Small Nuclear Reactor Pool Fire Could Displace 4.1 Million People; Make More than 9,000 Square Miles Uninhabitable 34 Groups Urge Nuclear Agency to Suspend Relicensing And Address Safety & Costs WASHINGTON, D.C. – February 18, 2014 – New information from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) showing that even a…
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