The Environmental Protection Agency is waiting for a nuclear fire to erupt at a St. Louis landfill, House lawmakers warned at a Wednesday energy committee hearing.

The EPA has “failed the people in the most heartless manner possible,” Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., said in testifying before a panel focused on the agency’s cleanup activities at the site and other communities suffering from the nation’s nuclear weapons legacy.

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