BREAKING! West Lake Senate Win & WIPP 2 Years On (Nuclear Hotseat #241)
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 2016-02-03

WEST LAKE LANDFILL BREAKING NEWS! The Senate has passed a bill to transfer remediation authority over the radioactive waste in the West Lake Landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, putting the site in the Corps’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, known by the acronym FUSRAP. The bipartisan bill was proposed by Missouri’s U.S. Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill.

To capture this moment of success, we interviewed two activists directly involved in the battle to move the West Lake clean-up from EPA to the Army Corps – and familiar to regular listeners of Nuclear Hotseat:
Byron DeLear lives near the West Lake Landfill and has been involved in clean energy issues for many years. He is a columnist with Examiner.com, was founder of Global Peace Solution, and is currently running for state representative.
and
Dawn Chapman is a Mom who lives only two miles from the radioactive landfill and serves as an admin for the West Lake Landfill Facebook page and a genuine grass roots leader of this campaign for environmental justice.

After posting this video, I received the following message:
From Byron DeLear 1 week ago 
Hi! Thanks for posting the nuclear hotseat, I wanted to make sure you knew about the error in the latest one Error --- At 2:53, right when my interview starts, it skips a large part ....  can you fix this? I've embedded this youtube in my latest examiner piece and want to help cross-promote it and nuclear hotseat, thanks Byron DeLear 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9kFd...

http://www.examiner.com/article/major...

Plus This Week’s Featured Interview: 
The explosion, radioactive plutonium and americium release, and closure of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP Site) took place on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2014.  Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center brings us up to date as WIPP hits its second anniversary. http://www.sric.org/

CALLS NEEDED: 
House Bill 4100 is the bipartisan companion legislation introduced by Missouri Representatives Wm. Lacy Clay  (202) 225-2406 and Ann Wagner  202-225-1621.  Contact them and your representative to build support. 

H.R. 4100 To require the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake remediation oversight of the West Lake Landfill located in Bridgeton, Missouri. http://tinyurl.com/hg8jf73
Nuclear Hotseat #241: BREAKING! Westlake Senate Win w/Byron DeLear, Dawn Chapman + WIPP 2nd Anniversary Update w/Don Hancock http://tinyurl.com/hsglt7v

Lara and Jonathan play 'Under The Sea'!  https://youtu.be/Up6Tt5T5iZE 

My St Louis Coldwater Creek West Lake Landfill playlist: http://tinyurl.com/om33588

My WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) playlist: http://tinyurl.com/z67sykl