For the 55 days until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took over, there was a near-constant state of confusion over who was or who should have been in charge of fighting the fire, and who would pay to put it out.
State and local authorities faced uncertainty and confusion over who was in charge of putting out an underground landfill fire that burned for three months.
Federal environmental regulators say 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. The
The cost of extinguishing a landfill fire that’s been burning since November in Alabama’s St. Clair County is now at an estimated $2.8 million, federal environmental regulators said.