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The agency charged with cleaning up or isolating radioactive waste in West Lake has said little about the risk posed by an adjacent landfill fire.
Republic Services has donated $100,000 to Missouri Republican legislative committees in the last two years, and state GOP legislators make up a large chunk of its lobbying group's supporters.Â
The long overdue step of moving oversight for cleanup of radioactive waste at the West Lake Landfill to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is finally within sight.
A bill passed in the U.S. Senate last week transferring jurisdiction for the site from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Corps-run Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, known more commonly by its acronym, .
