by Hayley Nicole Landman | Aug 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sixty-five people gathered at the start time for the Moms’ (Just Moms STL) August meeting, this time in a union hall. At least ten more straggled in, as confused newcomers navigated construction on the road outside. Billed as a candidate’s forum instead of the normal...
by Hayley Nicole Landman | Aug 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Once a month, the Moms of West Lake Landfill host a community meeting to give updates about the conditions at the site and to give stakeholders and local officials a chance to interact with each other. It started over four years ago, when Ed Smith from the Missouri...
by Hayley Nicole Landman | Aug 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Designing a summer research project to do in my home community has been an amazing experience. Not only am I putting the resources that Northwestern offers its undergrads to work to produce better understanding of a problem, but I get to do it at home, addressing an...
by Hayley Nicole Landman | Jul 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
This summer I am researching an environmental crisis at a landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri, which is a small suburb of St. Louis not too far from its airport. In 1973, a company illegally dumped between 40,000 and 100,000 tons of nuclear waste at the West Lake...
