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September 20, 2004
State Environmental Commissioners Vote to Keep Some Hazardous Electronic Waste Out of Landfill
On Thursday September 16, 2004, at a suspenseful hearing a 2-1 majority of the Commissioners of the state environmental agency voted to overturn their staff's decision on letting hazardous electronic waste to be disposed of in a trash landfill.
Without this ruling, hazardous waste polluters would have gotten the message that the TCEQ would approve plans that reclassifies hazardous waste as "Special Waste" after being mixed with garbage in landfills.
Texas Campaign for the Environment hopes to use this case to increase support for keeping ALL toxic electronic waste out of landfills in Texas.
In addition, this is the second time in 6 months that at least two of the three Commissioners were willing to reconsider actions of staff and do something different than staff recommended on a waste issue.
To see more on this case, the website of the landfill that was unlawfully dumped on and is fighting to have the hazardous waste removed has press clippings and lots of background on the case. Go to Texas Disposal Systems's website and click on "About Us" and then "Latest News" or "TCEQ Filings & Information"
Posted by robin at September 20, 2004 05:05 PM