FLORISSANT, Missouri — Eleven months ago, an independent contractor working at Jana Elementary reported finding high levels of radioactive dust on the grounds of this North St. Louis County school. Immediately, the students and their parents, a majority of whom are non-white and often economically…
FLORISSANT, Missouri — Eleven months ago, an independent contractor working at Jana Elementary reported finding high levels of radioactive dust on the grounds of this North St. Louis County school. Immediately, the students and their parents, a majority of whom are non-white and often economically underprivileged, were sent scrambling to figure out where else the children would be sent to classes.
“My first introduction to [a radioactivity problem in the area] was as the state’s attorney general," Hawley said."Since then, in talking with the residents of the region, talking with people who have lived there historically, now moved away, and just learning about how widespread it is.” “What happened was the federal government, when the project was complete and they were finished with the uranium processing, the uranium waste, and all the radioactive material, what they did with it is basically nothing,” he said.Hawley said in his research he found photos of it in steel drums where it sat exposed to the elements right next to Coldwater Creek here in Florissant.
“You really have here a cross-section racially, demographically of working-class people who are just playing by the rules, minding their own business, and their government is poisoning them, and that is wrong,” he said. “That is why they have been so badly treated and the government has done this to them for 60, 70 years, is that nobody speaks up for them — they aren’t big fat donors, they don't have all the lobbyists scurrying around the Capitol handing out favors, so the government takes then for granted, and frankly, so do a lot of political leaders,” he said.
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