Coldwater Creek

The bill allows requests for an investigation to be submitted by individuals or community groups, not just local governments.

After a visit to St. Louis, the new EPA administrator said he was moved by the communities living with radioactive contamination.

Coldwater Creek lies at the heart of one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, a catastrophe that over three generations likely afflicted many thousands of people across the breadth of the St. Louis region.

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources asked that the EPA assume oversight of the Bridgeton Landfill, arguing it may contain nuclear waste like the adjacent West Lake Landfill.

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley said concerns about cost killed earlier efforts to renew a program for people exposed to radioactive waste. Hawley hopes a new compromise with a lower mandatory spending price tag will finally break through.

Lawmakers formed a new committee to document the effects of radioactive waste in the St. Louis region and other Missouri sites and to search for policy solutions.

The bill to provide compensation for radioactive waste victims in Missouri has stalled in Congress.

The signs released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warn of ‘low-level radioactive materials present’ near the suburban St. Louis creek.

An amendment to the annual defense spending bill fell along party lines in the House Rules Committee. The legislation would have added Missouri ZIP codes to the RECA program.

The site near Jana Elementary is one of many the Army Corps of Engineers is cleaning up along the 14-mile Coldwater Creek, the waterway contaminated with radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project.