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Cenya Davis puffs on her inhaler earlier this month. The 8-year-old student at Gateway Elementary School in St. Louis has been to the hospital three times for breathing trouble starting in December. She now regularly uses the inhaler.

Education

After school nurse sent report, was city’s response to breathing illnesses enough?

Ryan Delaney

Original story from June 14; updated with audio from St. Louis on the Air June 15.A school nurse told St. Louis health officials in February about…

Piles of concrete and brick line a fence separating the former Pruitt-Igoe housing development from the Gateway school complex. Parents and staff at the school say placing the rubble there stirred levels of dust high enough to sicken students and teachers

Education

NGA site debris moved next to a St. Louis school, air monitoring didn’t follow

Ryan Delaney

Demolition and excavation work for a new federal intelligence agency headquarters in north St. Louis received environmental scrutiny and regulation that…

Parents and staff blame illnesses inside the Gateway school complex on debris brought over from the site of the planned National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters. The piles tower over a fence next to the school. May 6, 2018.

Education

‘Dust bowl’ created by NGA project demolition blamed for sickening kids, teachers

Ryan Delaney

Isaiah Carson was happy and healthy on an early April afternoon as he worked on spelling with his dad at the family’s kitchen table.That wasn’t the case a…

Health, Science & Environment

St. Louis to get $400,000 from EPA to clean up polluted sites

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $400,000 in grants to the St. Louis Development Corporation. The funds will be used to assess and plan for…