The Alabama underground landfill fire will cost the Environmental Protection Agency $2.8M to put out. The fund will come from the EPA's regional money for emergency response.
MOODY, Ala. (AP) The cost of extinguishing a landfill fire that's been burning since late November in Alabama's St. Clair County is now at an estimated $2.8 million, federal environmental regulators said.
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"There’s now more than just smoke hanging around the site of an underground landfill fire near Birmingham. In the two days since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency showed up to take control of the scene, the area has been abuzz with EPA trucks, bulldozers and excavators moving in to begin putting out the fire."