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Apr 08, 2021
Arlington, VA – A judge has dismissed with prejudice a nuisance class action lawsuit filed in federal court in Pennsylvania against Waste Connections. The lead plaintiff in the case, Ms. Robin Baptiste, had claimed she was bothered by odors that came from the company’s Bethlehem Landfill, but during a March 2021 deposition, she admitted that the odor was from the Bethlehem Wastewater Treatment Plant. The decision by Judge Chad F. Kenney to dismiss the case with prejudice bars the plaintiffs from filing a future lawsuit against the defendant on the same issue.
“We applaud Judge Kenney’s decision to toss out this lawsuit,” said National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) President and CEO Darrell Smith. “Landfills are highly engineered facilities that comply with stringent local, state and federal regulations.”
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Apr 02, 2021
Arlington, VA – The National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) expresses its disappointment in President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan that short-changes traditional infrastructure, only allotting $115 billion over eight years, or just 5 percent of its overall pricetag, to highways, roads and bridges. The waste and recycling industry travels every road in the nation at least once every week, something only the U.S. Postal Service can also lay claim to, making it one of the most significant stakeholders in America’s surface transportation system.
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, growing wear and tear on our nation s roads have left 43 percent of our public roadways in poor or mediocre condition with an overall report card grade of D. The U.S. currently has a $786 billion backlog of road and bridge capital needs, yet the American Jobs Plan only funds roughly 15 percent of this while allocatin