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Pollution - USA - Trucking Company Is Sued
Ohioans Target Former Local Firm
USA - Hartford Courant, by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS -Oct 19, 2005: -- Fourteen Ohio residents, saying a local landfill and more than a half-dozen trash and trucking companies have endangered their health through hazardous trash fumes, are suing them and a Portland trucking company for allegedly polluting the neighborhood... The Ohioans brought suit in the Court of Common Pleas in Trumbull County, Ohio, on behalf of themselves and as a class action for all those similarly impacted by the dump. They are asking for more than $15,000 in damages for sicknesses they say were caused by the pollution, cleanup of their properties and an injunction to prevent further hazardous dumping... Since February 2002, says the suit, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has received over 800 complaints from residents concerning the contaminants emitted from the dump. Two years ago, according to EPA records, Warren Hills and Warren Recycling agreed to pay a $30,000 civil penalty for violations in emitting methane gas and hydrogen sulfide gas and fumes from fires as well as leaching of pollutants...
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