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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today clean-up methods it will take on a former mining site in Madison County.The Madison County Mines…

New report: "vast improvements" at John Cochran VA Medical CenterA new government report says the John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis has made…

View Larger MapDoe Run announced today that it will not build a new lead processing plant in Herculaneum.In 2010, the largest lead producer in North…

Attorney General Chris Koster has filed a consent decree to address environmental violations at Doe Run’s Sweetwater Mine and Mill in Reynolds…

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to test 256 Jefferson County residential properties amid concerns that lead in the Big River is contaminating…

The federal Environmental Protection Agency will provide the city of Joplin, Mo. with $500,000 to help test and clean up lead-contaminated soils that were…

The May tornado that hit Joplin, wiping out a big portion of the southwest Missouri city and killing 162 people, also left lead contamination that could…

The Environmental Protection Agency is fining Washington University for failing to tell tenants about lead paint hazards in some of its married student…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the Washington County Lead District-Furnace Creek site in Washington County, Missouri, to the federal…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 15, 2010 - A St. Louis University scholar thinks it's time for cities to refine the way they…