A months-long landfill fire in Alabama reveals waste regulation gaps
NPRA months-long landfill fire in Alabama reveals waste regulation gaps toggle caption Zoe McDonald/WBHM The smell started seeping into Krissy Harmon's home late at night the weekend after Thanksgiving. toggle caption Zoe McDonald/WBHM The regulatory gap ADEM, the Alabama agency that regulates the state's landfills, doesn't consider environmental waste to be solid waste, and neither does the EPA. Even if a landfill containing only green waste catches on fire, the smoke can still lead to adverse health effects, said Jeff Wickliffe, an environmental health sciences professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sponsor Message "When you look at what's coming out of the landfill based on the EPA measurements, those are by and large still derived from the biomass that's there," Wickliffe said.
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