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Cost of Coldwater Creek radioactive waste cleanup tops $400M, federal agency...
Coldwater Creek runs by the St. Louis airport and through Florissant and Hazelwood before flowing into the Missouri River. The creek is contaminated by nuclear waste left over from the effort to build...
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Weldon Spring uranium plant contaminated Missouri lakes with radioactive waste
A fishing boat sits at Lake No. 34 in August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area. Lake 34 is one of several that were contaminated by a nearby uranium refining plant decades ago (Allison Kite/Missouri...
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Compensation for St. Louis victims of nuclear waste stripped from federal...
A sign warns of radioactive material at the West Lake Landfill. Thousands of tons of nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project were dumped there in the 1970s (Theo Welling/Riverfront Times).A joint...
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Federal defense bill advances without compensation for St. Louis victims of...
Sen. Josh Hawley delayed the NDAA’s cloture vote by about 90 minutes. A motion he filed to stop the procedural vote failed, 26-73 (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images).A joint investigation by The Independent...
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Coldwater Creek to finally have warning signs after decades of nuclear...
Coldwater Creek runs by the St. Louis airport and through Florissant and Hazelwood before flowing into the Missouri River. The creek is contaminated by nuclear waste left over from the effort to build...
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Missouri House bill would allow further testing for St. Louis radioactive waste
(Illustration by Tyler Gross)Local governments in the St. Louis area could request radioactive waste testing from the state under a Missouri House bill that would appropriate money to a long-unfunded...
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Florissant homes built on Coldwater Creek may sit on radioactive contamination
A group of people with the Army Corps of Engineers exit a home on Cades Cove on Monday, March 4, 2024, in Florissant. The Army Corp of Engineers were drilling into the foundation of the house to test...
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U.S. Senate approves compensation for St. Louis nuclear waste exposures
Legislation sponsored by Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri extends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which is set to expire, and expands it to cover individuals who were exposed to the radioactive...
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Compensation for St. Louis victims of radioactive waste left out of federal...
Karen Nickel, left, and Dawn Chapman flip through binders full of government documents about St. Louis County sites contaminated by nuclear waste left over from World War II. Nickel and Chapman founded...
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U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley proposes adding radiation exposure bill to stalled tax...
U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley speaks during U.S. Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland's confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Feb. 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Demetrius...
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Missouri Senate advances KC weapons facility tax break without aid for...
The National Nuclear Safety Administration plans to expand its Kansas City facility, which develops and manufactures the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons. Missouri lawmakers are hoping to...
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Missouri advocates push for compensation for radioactive waste victims as...
Karen Nickel, left, and Dawn Chapman flip through binders full of government documents about St. Louis County sites contaminated by nuclear waste left over from World War II. Nickel and Chapman founded...
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U.S. House may consider extending nuclear weapons damages program without...
A sign warns of radioactive material at the West Lake Landfill. Thousands of tons of nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project were dumped there in the 1970s (Theo Welling/Riverfront Times).A proposal...
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Missouri residents affected by radiation exposure push Congress to extend...
Tammy Tesson Puhlmann, 63, who now lives in Villa Ridge, Missouri, shows photos of her son Drew as she sat in the Russell Senate Office Building on May 22. Puhlmann’s son died of cancer at age 30, and...
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U.S. House speaker reverses on radiation compensation bill that excluded...
A photo taken in 1960 of deteriorating steel drums containing radioactive residues near Coldwater Creek, by the Mallinckrodt-St. Louis Sites Task Force Working Group (State Historical Society of...
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Time’s run out for the Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act
A sign warns of radioactive material at the West Lake Landfill. Thousands of tons of nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project were dumped there in the 1970s (Theo Welling/Riverfront Times).A federal...
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Radium in groundwater near West Lake Landfill in St. Louis County forces more...
A sign warns of radioactive material at the West Lake Landfill. Thousands of tons of nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project were dumped there in the 1970s (Theo Welling/Riverfront Times).Crews...
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Missouri AG criticized by political rivals over alleged lack of action on...
The three major-party candidates for Missouri attorney general, from left, Will Scharf, Andrew Bailey and Elad Gross (campaign photos). Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey insists his office is...
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Five revelations about St. Louis’ history with radioactive waste
A photo taken in 1960 of deteriorating steel drums containing radioactive residues near Coldwater Creek, by the Mallinckrodt-St. Louis Sites Task Force Working Group (State Historical Society of...
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Records reveal 75 years of government downplaying, ignoring risks of St....
(Illustration by Tyler Gross)For kids like Sandy Mitchell, Ted Theis and Janet Johnson, childhood in the North St. Louis County suburbs in the 1960s and ‘70s meant days playing along the banks or...
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