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Dooley: Nothing County Can Do About Burning Bridgeton Landfill
CLAYTON, Mo. (KMOX) - Bridgeton residents have been calling on state and federal agencies to put a stop to the underground fire at the Bridgeton Landfill but St. Louis County officials said Tuesday...
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Public Meeting Will Focus On Making Hartford Slag Pile Disappear
HARTFORD, Ill. (KMOX) – It rises, black and ominous, above the surrounding corn fields — visible to everyone who drives by on Illinois Route 3 and New Poag Rd. in Hartford Illinois. The mountain of...
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SLU Expert Explains Chemical Weapons Response
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A local professor who previously worked at the Department of Homeland Security says the U.S. is well prepared to handle a chemical attack similar to the one seen in Syria last week....
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EPA To Release St. Louis County Water Test Results
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Federal regulators will share their cleanup plans this week with residents of a St. Louis County neighborhood where contaminated groundwater lingers from a 25-year-old industrial...
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Proposed Mo. Rule Allowing E15 Gas Faces Challenge
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri lawmakers are considering whether to block a proposed rule that could expand the use of ethanol in gasoline. A legislative committee heard about two hours of...
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Government Shutdown Delays Bridgeton Landfill Work
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) - The federal government shutdown has delayed plans for a firebreak trench at the burning Bridgeton Landfill. Before the trench can be dug, the Environmental Protection Agency...
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Bridgeton Landfill Fire Heats Up Race for County Executive
BRIDGETON, MO–(KMOX)–It’s a landfill fire near a radioactive dump that could worry thousands of voters in north county — and the man who wants to unseat Charlie Dooley is making it an issue in the race...
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Documents Reveal Earlier Fire Near Bridgeton Radioactive Waste
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) - There are new concerns about an old problem at Bridgeton’s smoldering landfill. Documents show that the ongoing fire at the Bridgeton Landfill is not the first to come close to...
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Testing Work to Start on Bridgeton Landfill Trench
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Initial testing is about to start on a trench to help prevent underground smoldering at a suburban St. Louis landfill from reaching World War II-era nuclear waste buried 1,200 feet...
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EPA Testing at Bridgeton Landfill to Resume Next Week
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) - Environmental testing delayed by the government shutdown is now back on track in Bridgeton. Republic Services, owner of the Bridgeton Landfill, where an underground fire has...
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Nuclear Waste Expert Calls West Lake Landfill “Highly Toxic”
BRIDGETON, MO–(KMOX)–The West Lake Landfill nuclear should be dug up and hauled away — so says a nuclear waste expert in town tonight to meet with Bridgeton residents. Robert Alvarez, who served in the...
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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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More Testing at Bridgeton Landfill Next Week
BRIDGETON, Mo. (AP) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will begin more testing at the Bridgeton landfill next week. The new testing will include drilling up to 80 feet in the ground to...
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More Testing This Week At Bridgeton Landfill
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to begin more sample digging in Bridgeton this week. They’ll be digging up to 80 feet deep to find out if radioactive waste...
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Unusually Bad Odor Coming from Bridgeton Landfill
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) - A very heavy garbage and gasoline odor prompted a flood of complaints this week against the owners of a suburban St. Louis landfill. More than fifty people have posted written...
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Missouri Congressional Delegation Debating Bridgeton Landfill Plan
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) - Mounting public pressure for the removal of nuclear waste from the West Lake Landfill is the topic, as the Missouri Congressional delegation meets about what to do. While the...
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Missourians Rally For Wood Burning Stoves
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP)- A federal proposal to clean up the smoke wafting from wood-burning stoves has sparked a backlash from some rural residents, lawmakers and manufacturers who fear it could close...
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Mo. Congressional Delegation Sends Letter to EPA over West Lake Landfill
BRIDGETON (KMOX) - For the first time, the EPA is being asked to contract directly with the Army Corps of Engineers to handle any and all remediation needed at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton....
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Charlie Brennan – Tuesday, March 11th – Dr. Theodore Cicero on Heroin Use;...
Charlie and Debbie talk with Dr. Theodore Cicero, a psychiatry professor at Washington University, about heroin use and whether Att’y General Eric Holder is a bit too late on getting in the heroin...
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McCaskill Pushes Jobs Bill for Vets
ST. LOUIS–(KMOX)–Pushing a plan to help veterans get back to work, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill stood outside the Soldiers Memorial downtown. “We do have a recovery underway; it’s sustained,”...
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