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Saturday, February 25, 2006
Environment - "Company suing to open medical waste facility"
"Company suing to open medical waste facility" is the headline today to a story in the Gary Post-Tribune. For background on this ongoing dispute, see this ILB entry from Dec. 15, 2005. Some quotes from today's story, by Andy Grimm:
EAST CHICAGO — Despite a resounding defeat by county regulators and opposition from City Hall, a local company will try to get a court to let it open a medical waste plant.Abrade Technologies has sued the Lake County Solid Waste Management District, claiming district officials ignored evidence the area needs a facility to get rid of contaminated medical trash.
The lawsuit is the latest in a controversy that has dragged on for more than two years, as Abrade owner Anthony Portone has sought to open a medical trash processing plant on an industrial site off Canal Street over the objections of a coalition of area churches. * * *
The county already is in state appellate court fighting a medical waste plant that opened in Gary in 2004 with approval from the state Department of Environmental Management.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 25, 2006 03:12 PM
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