Radioactive Fire with Just Moms STL's Dawn Chapman

Breaking Green

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Radioactive waste from the building of the first atomic bomb sits in a landfill with a below ground fire. Dawn Chapman who was featured in HBO's Atomic Homefront tells Breaking Green how the EPA is again delaying removal seven years after agreeing to a new cleanup plan pressured by the community.
Dawn and other activists from the region promise more pressure as they plan a trip to EPA headquarters as time runs out for a community they say is besieged with illness and childhood cancers.
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Chapters

1. Breaking Green Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Episode Introduction (00:00:27)

3. What brings you to activism (00:01:39)

4. Radiation Fire (00:02:06)

5. Manhattan Project Waste (00:04:28)

6. Moms Learn of Fire (00:05:31)

7. Health Consequences (00:07:06)

8. 2018 Decision by EPA (00:09:52)

9. 50 years of innaction (00:10:27)

10. Lost to Cancer (00:12:24)

11. Break with Theresa Church (00:14:04)

12. Shelter in place (00:15:08)

13. Radiation found in home (00:19:59)

14. Atomic Worker History / Secret Classification (00:22:06)

15. Secret History (00:23:16)

16. Moms STL travels to EPA headquarters (00:24:25)

17. Money is not the issue (00:27:07)

18. Is a buyout on the table? (00:30:06)

19. Would meaningful action cause panic? (00:30:51)

20. Local Hospitals Waking Up (00:32:18)

21. Already Sick (00:33:18)

22. Lois Gibbs (00:36:06)

23. Outro (00:38:56)