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Appeals court allows class action lawsuit over ‘noxious’ Scott County landfill to move forward

  • Liam Niemeyer

The Kentucky Court of Appeals is allowing a class action lawsuit to move forward against a shuttered Scott County landfill that local residents have lodged complaints against for years over allegations of pervasive and noxious odors coming from the site.  In an Aug. 7 decision, Court of Appeals Judge Will Moynahan wrote Scott County Circuit […]

Audit: Program hasn’t investigated nearly 8 in 10 landfills
North Carolina

Audit: Program hasn’t investigated nearly 8 in 10 landfills

  • By Alan Wooten | The Center Square

(The Center Square) – An environmental oversight program in North Carolina created in 2007 hasn’t investigated nearly 8 in 10 landfills, a state audit says, and 80% of those sites are within 1,000 feet of homes, schools, daycares, churches or drinking water wells.