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MSD Ratepayers Face Big Hikes — as Feds Order Sewer Improvements
ST. LOUIS–(KMOX)–Your sewer bill could shoot up to around $85 a month in 15 years, to pay for vast upgrades needed to keep sewer water away from creeks and rivers, as part of a federal consent decree...
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No Health Risk Found in Route 66 State Park Soil
EUREKA, Mo. (AP) – Soil samples show no significant health risks for visitors or workers at an eastern Missouri state park established in 1999 on the former site of a town shut down due to dioxin...
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Citizens, EPA Discuss Climate Change in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Climate change is real, and conditions are getting worse, not better. That’s the message from a “Clean Air Health Fair” held in north St. Louis on Saturday. Karl Brooks is the...
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EPA: No Radiation Risk from West Lake Landfill
ST. LOUIS–(KMOX)–The Environmental Protection Agency says there’s “no public health risk” from the radiation at a nuclear waste site — the one next door to a raging underground garbage fire. The EPA’s...
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EPA Says It’s Moving Ahead With West Lake Landfill Tests
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – The Environmental Protection Agency says it is continuing testing at the radioactive West Lake Landfill while also watching what is happening next-door at the smoldering...
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More Radioactive Material Found Near Burning Bridgeton Landfill
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – The Environmental Protection Agency has found more radioactive debris in West Lake Landfill. The radioactive dirt was found about 30 feet below the surface, in an area where...
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Attorney General Koster Takes Action on Bridgeton Landfill
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMOX) – Attorney General Chris Koster today initiated two actions in regard to the Westlake Landfill site in Bridgeton, Mo. Koster sent a letter to EPA Regional Administrator Karl...
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EPA: Baseball Fields Near West Lake Landfill are Safe
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – The fear of radioactive contamination has forced organizers to move a major little league tournament from a sports complex in Bridgeton. Almost 100 teams from across the Midwest...
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EPA Agrees to Screen for Contamination at Bridgeton Athletic Complex
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – A week after organizers moved a major little league tournament from a sports complex in Bridgeton for fear of radioactive contamination, the EPA has agreed to conduct screening...
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EPA Refuses Koster’s Demand for More Radiation Tests
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – The EPA has responded to Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster’s demand for more radiation tests on the haul roads around the West Lake landfill. In a letter to Koster, EPA...
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EPA to Begin Radiation Testing Near Bridgeton Ballfields
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – The EPA today starts testing around the Bridgeton ballfields in an effort to ease the fears of parents. They may not be able to ease those fears, though. Some people are still...
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EPA: Final Report on Bridgeton Municipal Athletic Complex Shows Facility...
LENEXA, Kan. (KMOX) – The Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 says that a final comprehensive report of scientific surface gamma radiation screening and soil sampling of the Bridgeton Municipal...
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EPA Claims Air Safe to Breathe Near Burning Bridgeton Landfill
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The EPA is out with a new study claiming the air around the burning Bridgeton landfill is safe to breathe. EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks says the seven-month study from May...
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