Club 3000 – Ohio Landfills

The residents’ group Club 3000 and the Tuscarawas County commissioners have filed appeals seeking to reverse the granting of an operating license to the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility.

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An appeals court Wednesday posted online its opinion that explains why it ruled that the local waste district’s rules limiting the influx of waste are invalid.

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A state appeals court must decide whether the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Solid Waste Management District can restrict garbage shipments from other Ohio counties.

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BOLIVAR — The board of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District voted Friday to proceed with an environmental lawsuit against American Landfill in Federal district court in Akron.

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BOLIVAR — Seventy-three residents and businesses have added their names to the list of hundreds who are suing the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility.

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CANTON —

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency issued a statement Wednesday afternoon saying that it has finalized a $10 million settlement with Republic Services regarding its landfill in Pike Township, the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility.

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Letter to Governor Strickland from Richard Sahli Attorney for Club – 3000 03/31/2009

Press Release – 03/31/2009
R. Edwin Gortner – Notice of Appeal

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BOLIVAR —
A high-ranking Ohio Environmental Protection Agency regulator says he lost his job overseeing Countywide landfill after he determined that “reckless and negligent decisions” by the agency’s Twinsburg office were the primary cause of that landfill’s underground fire.

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11/29/2007 – Stark County Common Pleas Judge Richard Reinbold ruled in favor of Republic Waste Services, blocking the Stark County Health Department from suspending Countywide’s license until he can look at all the paperwork. He stated “I can’t say the immediacy of harm to residents around the landfill takes precedence over harm to Republic Services [...]

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