From The Tribune staff reports
ST. CLAIR COUNTY – Several organizations intend to attend the upcoming Environmental Management Commission meeting on Feb 10, 2023, to request that they be allowed to make presentations to the commission on the subject of the landfill fire in St. Clair County, environmental attorney David A. Ludder announced.
Landfill fire in Moody continues to burn. Photo by Ron Burkett/ The Trussville Tribune
The organizations expected to attend the meeting include the Environmental Defense Alliance (environmentaldefensealliance.org), GASP (gaspgroup.org), and Cahaba Riverkeeper (cahabariverkeeper.org).
The commission will hear from the public after it concludes its regular business agenda and these organizations were required to include in their requests a description of their intended presentation.
The presentation by the Environmental Defense Alliance will be made by its attorney, David A. Ludder, who is a former General Counsel of ADEM and the Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation, and is now in private practice at the Law Office of David A. Ludder, PLLC.
“The presentation concludes that ADEM has mistakenly claimed that it lacks authority to regulate the land disposal of stumps, logs, tree limbs, brush, yard trimmings, leaves or other vegetative debris and urges the Commission to advise the ADEM Director to regulate the disposal of such wastes and to adopt rules for the proper disposal of such wastes,” Ludder said.
The Environmental Management Commission will meet at the ADEM offices at 1400 Coliseum Boulevard in Montgomery, at 11 a.m., on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023.
