"Two medical waste sites get an OK" is the headline to this story today in the Gary Post-Tribune. Some quotes:
GARY — Residents’ protests and last-ditch efforts by local officials don’t seem to be slowing plans to open two medical waste processing plants in northwest Indiana.Here are some quotes from the story published in the Louisville Courier-Journal, headlined "Company to proceed with medical-waste processing plant."Officials at Midwest Medical Solutions said they are going ahead with plans to open the state’s first medical-waste processing plant in Gary near 15th Avenue and Interstate 65 after a state environmental law judge ruled against county officials’ claim they should have a say in permitting the plant to operate.
The state Department of Environmental Management this week began processing a permit application for a similar plant in an industrial site along Canal Street in East Chicago.
GARY, Ind. (AP) -- Midwest Medical Solutions is going ahead with plans to open the state's first medical-waste processing plant in Gary despite protests by residents and opposition by local officials.I hope to obtain a copy of the state environmental law judge's ruling and will post it here. Posted by Marcia Oddi at October 29, 2004 08:32 AMJeff Langbehn, director of the Lake County Solid Waste Management District, said Thursday he would urge the district to go to court to fight a decision by a state environmental law judge, who ruled against county officials' efforts to halt the plans.
"If we don't appeal this, then anybody that wants to can just go to the state and get the approval," Langbehn said.