Just Moms STL

The signs released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warn of ‘low-level radioactive materials present’ near the suburban St. Louis creek.

An amendment to the annual defense spending bill fell along party lines in the House Rules Committee. The legislation would have added Missouri ZIP codes to the RECA program.

‘I do feel hopeful,’ says Dawn Chapman, co-founder of Just Moms STL. ‘It’s just — I’m tired.’

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act cleared its first major legislative hurdle on Thursday. It would provide compensation to sick St. Louisans living in areas with radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project.

Nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region dates back to the 1940s. Documents show leaders of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, which processed uranium in St. Louis, knew of the contamination risks in 1949.

Despite pleas from community members who say the landfill is responsible for mysterious illnesses, federal environmental regulators said Tuesday they can’t provide a timeline for cleanup.

Firefighters in north St. Louis County extinguished a surface fire that occurred at the Bridgeton Landfill on Friday evening.It took two and a half hours…

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund Task Force resigned Tuesday after one year in the role, leaving residents in northwest St.…

Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency did not attend a public meeting to share updates on the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton late Monday…

An activist group of St. Louis area moms concerned about underground smoldering at the Bridgeton Landfill plans to picket outside the Environmental…