Solid Waste Permit News Today

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Disposal District (“St. Landry”) entered into a Settlement Agreement (“SA”) addressing...

Nightmarish complications piled up on the state’s quasi-public trash agency in recent days as it faced an end-of-the-world scenario — the world, at least, as the often-controversial Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority (MIRA) has known it for about half a century. Since the 1980s, MIRA has been burning municipal trash around the clock to generate electricity at its massive plant on ...