Water Contaminants

The St. Louis County administration building must be updated to stay in compliance with Clayton city codes. County Executive Sam Page urged the county council Tuesday to act now.

The new sales tax rate at CityPark is 12.7%. St. Louis City SC officials plan to use the extra money for unexpected construction costs.

Critics say the Missouri legislation debated this week could jeopardize the state’s groundwater and 136,000 miles of streams.

There is a growing effort around St. Louis to adopt new practices to reduce road salt during winter storms.

The future of NexGen’s proposed Ste Genevieve County mine remains unclear after an appeals court ruling.

The Department of Energy says it will evaluate alternative ideas to decontaminate the radioactive site and groundwater.

The Missouri Independent, MuckRock and The Associated Press spent months combing through thousands of pages of previously-unreleased government records that show radioactive waste was known to pose a threat to people living near Coldwater Creek as early as 1949. But federal officials repeatedly wrote potential risks off as ‘slight,’ ‘minimal’ or ‘low-level.’

Environmentalists have asked the state Administrative Hearing Commission to overturn a water permit for a silica mine in Ste. Genevieve. Residents and environmentalists say the permit would allow the mine to release contaminants in the local water supply.

Patricia Schuba, president of the board of Labadie Environmental Organization, discusses what people can do to promote environmental change.

There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report.