Category: Hazardous Waste

November 21, 2013 Corps of Engineers Program Needed for Nuclear Weapons Wastes St. Louis, MO – Robert Alvarez, senior advisor in the Department of Energy under President Clinton, released a report on how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not properly evaluated the risks of the West Lake Landfill and why the Army Corps of…

FREE —- YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS MEETING WHEN:  Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. WHERE: International Union of Operating Engineers – 3449 Hollenburg Dr., Bridgeton, MO 63044 The next West Lake Landfill public meeting welcomes several experts from near and far, including: Bob Alvarez, who served in the US Dept. of…

To DNR: Public Safety Must Be the Highest Priority at the West Lake/Bridgeton Landfill Earlier this summer Republic Services, the owner of a landfill in north St. Louis County where an underground fire continues to advance toward decades-old radioactive nuclear weapons waste that lies 1,000 feet away, submitted an amended plan to address the fire…

Thursday, July 11, the Missouri Coalition for the Environment sent our comments to the Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources on Republic Services’ Contingency Plan for the Bridgeton/West Lake landfill fire. The company, which owns the Bridgeton/Westlake landfill, had submitted the Plan to satisfy an agreement with Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster. In the letter, MCE…

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that the Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources has not acted on the advice of its expert on addressing the West Lake Landfill fire in Bridgeton where a subsurface fire is threatening radioactive nuclear weapons waste. See the story here. You can see the expert’s report here. Help support our…