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Who was held accountable for the hazardous powder left near the town of Berger, Missouri? Cleaning up the Superfund site cost more than $4.2 million.

Children, homeless people and even city officials entered the building in Berger, Missouri, unaware they were inhaling toxic dust.

Sandblasting material used to strip paint was trucked 500 miles or more to a remote warehouse near the Missouri River.

Reworld, which manages industrial waste and converts it into energy, honed in on the city’s Armourdale neighborhood for its new processing facility. But the company quietly withdrew its plans after residents demanded answers about potential health and environmental risks.

Reworld, a global industrial waste company, wants to open a processing and recycling facility in Armourdale, a neighborhood near the Missouri border.

We live in a “throwaway society,” and now landfills are reaching their capacity with items that could be fixed. One Kansas City group is trying to change that by encouraging people to repair their broken stuff.

Re.Use.Full not only provides drop off points where Kansas Citians can donate their gently used goods, but it also sponsors free, pop-up repair shops with volunteers who will fix your appliances and other household goods so they don’t go into a landfill.

Ford County, Kansas, filed suit against a host of manufacturers and a leading chemicals trade group last month, claiming the companies lied about the recyclability of plastic.

The signs released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warn of "low-level radioactive materials present" near Coldwater Creek in St. Louis.

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has expired, but Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and other Congress members are still fighting to expand it. Plus: Precision agriculture is supposed to help growers be more efficient with what and how they farm, but it's still years away from fulfilling its promise.

Kansas City Council member Crispin Rea is sponsoring an ordinance to increase penalties for illegal dumping, which regularly affects vacant lots and the city's Land Bank properties.

The legislation requiring companies to build their meatpacking sludge storage lagoons away from nearby homes passed the Missouri Senate this week.