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Environmentalists and community groups failed to get a state judge to halt work on a new construction and demolition landfill in New Orleans East Thursday.
They vowed to continue to fight the landfill on U.S. 190 about 1.5 miles from a predominantly Vietnamese community in Village de L’Est.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality both recently issued permits that would allow Waste Management to open and operate a landfill to take nonhazardous hurricane debris and demolition wastes. The landfill would be able to take about one-third of the estimated 18 million cubic yards, or 7.2 million tons, of vegetation and other debris generated by Hurricane Katrina still needing disposal.
The Louisiana Environmental Action Network and Citizens for a Strong New Orleans East asked U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman to temporarily stop work on the landfill until he could hear their challenge to a wetlands permit issued by the corps. But Thursday he rejected their arguments.
Failure to halt landfill doesn’t stop activists
I'm all for lessening environmental impacts, but please... they've got to put the stuff somewhere. Geez.
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