We’re hoping to speak to people who have filed a claim through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. We want to know what the experience was like. By Catie Edmondson Catie Edmondson, who covers ...

Workers’ compensation is available to anyone who has been injured on the job. Asbestos exposure in the workplace is the ...

This story was a collaboration between St. Louis Public Radio and the Belleville News-Democrat. Along the border of Venice and Madison in the metro-east, a 1.4 million-square-foot factory and former ...

A sign identifies a repository near Edgemont where 4 million tons of radioactive tailings from a former uranium mill have been buried since the 1980s. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) The ...

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expires this summer. The initial bill passed the Senate earlier this year but has yet to be considered in the House. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has been pushing ...

Seated: Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council Crystalyne Curley (left) and Leslie Begay, a veteran and former uranium miner (right). Standing: Julia Torres (left) and Maggie Billiman (right) who are ...

The Senate is set to vote Thursday on a stand-alone bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to expand and renew a 30-year-old law compensating Americans exposed to radiation by the federal ...

Tona Henderson, an Idaho downwinder, is pictured inside the Rumor Mill Bakery in Emmett in 2013. Henderson was part of a press conference Monday featuring activists and politicians who are pushing for ...