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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]
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 ...
Atomic Homefront is a 2017 documentary film about the effects of radioactive waste stored in West Lake Landfill in St. Louis County, Missouri, by Rebecca Cammisa and co-produced by James Freydberg and Larissa Bills. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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.
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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.
The act established a framework for states to better control solid waste disposal and set minimum safety requirements for landfills. [4] In 1976 Congress determined that the provisions of SWDA were insufficient to properly manage the nation's waste and enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Congress passed additional major ...