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  2. List of Superfund sites in Missouri - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in Missouri designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]

  3. West Lake Landfill - Wikipedia

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    West Lake Landfill is a closed, unlined mixed-waste landfill located in Bridgeton, Missouri. It was featured in the 2015 documentaries The First Secret City, [1] The Safe Side of the Fence and the 2017 HBO documentary Atomic Homefront. Its contents have been shown to include radioactive waste; it is thus also an EPA Superfund cleanup site. [2 ...

  4. Missouri landfill law is badly out of date. Don’t turn south ...

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    The location of the 200-acre solid waste landfill proposed for south Kansas City — which would be one of the largest landfills in the state — is right at the half-mile mark.

  5. A Peoria landfill is almost full and its replacement doesn't ...

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    A Peoria-area landfill is close to full and city and county officials are racing to find a plan for what to do when it reaches capacity. The saga unfolding with the landfills could lead to ...

  6. Landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions in the United States, with municipal solid waste landfills representing 95 percent of this fraction. [15] [16] In the U.S., the number of landfill gas projects increased from 399 in 2005, to 594 in 2012 [17] according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

  7. ‘Kill the fill.’ Proposed Kansas City landfill targeted by MO ...

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  8. List of Missouri conservation areas - Wikipedia

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    The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) administers hundreds of parcels of land in all counties of the state. Most areas are owned by the department; some are leased by the department; some areas are managed under contract by the department; and some areas are leased to other entities for management.

  9. America’s landfills are ‘garbage lasagnas’—fetid layers of ...

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    America’s landfills—and the environmental havoc they create—are sizable. There are roughly 1,200 landfills currently in operation, and on average, each one takes up about 600 acres of land ...