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BRIDGETON (KMOX) – The owner of the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill is agreeing to dig a ditch to stop an underground trash fire from reaching radioactive waste buried at the nearby West Lake Landfill. The following statement was released by the...

Environmental NewsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE(Lenexa, Kan., Jan. 8, 2014) - Contractors working under the oversight of EPA Region 7 will begin a new core sampling phase of an engineering survey during the week of January 13 at the West Lake Landfill Superfund...

Scriba, NY — US Coast Gaurd officials have cordoned off a portion of Lake Ontario this week, after aerial spotters found a visible “sheen” that is coming from a nuclear power plant in upstate New York. The Coast Guard Auxiliary aircrew first noticed...

By Claire Bernish What happens when radioactive byproduct from the Manhattan Project comes into contact with an “underground fire” at a landfill? Surprisingly, no one actually knows for sure; but residents of Bridgeton, Missouri, near the West Lake...

Dawn Chapman doesn’t barbeque much anymore. The mother of three is concerned about the rising levels of cancer in Bridgeton, Missouri, and the surrounding suburbs nestled together just north of St. Louis. But the source of the cancer, she says, isn’t...