Waste Management Garbage Truck and Train Crash

In Jackson, Mississippi a Waste Management garbage truck crashed with an Amtrack train this week on Tuesday, May 27. According to reports in Mississippi, The Federal Railroad Administration is investigating the incident.

Deputy Sheriff Tony Hemphill stated "Its possible that once the investigation is completed, that a citation could be issued for the party at fault".

Spread the word...No Landfill Expansion!

In an effort to stop Waste Management from continuing to expand landfills across the United States of America our group has begun to sell the baseball cap shown to the left.

The baseball caps can be purchased at a price of $12.99 each. Four dollars of the sale from each cap will be used towards the advertising of a campaign to point out the negatives in landfilling. The remaining funds will be used for the production of the cap.

To order your cap please send a check payable to:

Alliance Landfill Task Force

Alliance Landfill Task Force

P.O. Box 301

Taylor, PA. 18517

*Please allow 7 business days for your cap to arrive.

The ATSDR has categorized the Alliance Landfill (which is owned and operated by Waste Management) as an Indeterminate Public Health Hazard. Waste Management for the past four years still has not agreed to a community air monitoring plan.

INDETERMINATE PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD

According to the Agency For Toxic Substances And Disease Registry...

Alliance Sanitary Landfill is a "INDETERMINATE PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD".

An "INDETERMINATE PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD" is the category used in the ATSDR's public health assessment documents when a professional judgment about the level of a health hazard cannot be made because information critical to such a decision is lacking.

Do you feel safe as a resident living near a facility that the federal government feels needs more critical information in order to determine whether it is safe for public health?

The ATSDR and the PA DOH have be calling on Waste Management and Alliance Landfill to do more air monitoring for over four years.

Why is Alliance Landfill not meeting the request of the ATSDR to increase air monitoring in our communities? Is their a problem with Alliance Landfill and the gases that go in to the air we breathe daily?

We have a right to clean air, We demand full enforcement of Pennsylvania Department of Health and the ATSDR's recommendations for air monitoring at ALLIANCE LANDFILL in TAYLOR, PA.


Show your support for this enforcement by writing to:

Kathleen A. McGinty, Secretary

PA Department of Environmental Protection

Rachel Carson State Office Building

400 Market Street

Harrisburg, PA. 17105

Alliance Against Alliance

Alliance Against Alliance - will be meeting this Wednesday, May 7 at 7 PM.

The meeting will take place at the Old Forge Borough Building.

Senator Mellow and Waste Management $$$$

Since August of 2004, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has been recommending to Alliance Landfill and the PA Department of Environmental Protection Agency that three or four community-based air monitoring stations or sampling locations be established in our communities. When the Alliance Landfill Task Force was made aware of the need for monitoring our group wrote to Senator Mellow for help.

It's been quite awhile since our first letter to Senator Mellow and we still have not received a response to date. When our group started to wonder why, we investigated a bit further and found out that Senator Mellow receives quite a bit of money in campaign contributions from various Waste Management sources. One such source is the Waste Management Pac.

To view the contributions go to the weblink at the right of the screen and click:

PA Dept. 0f State - Campaign Finance Reporting

* Be sure to add Waste Management Pac as the Contributer. Mellow as the Filer (Recipient). Begin Date: 1/1/2004
End Date: 4/28/2008 Then hit Search

Senator Mellow is a senior legislator who should be ashamed of his actions. It is the Alliance Landfill Task Force opinion that Senator Mellow has chosen to put the dollar before the safety of the people he took an oath to represent. If Senator Mellow is not going to live up to the oath of representing the people in a respectful manner than Senator Mellow should resign immediately.

The residents residing around Alliance Landfill have the right to know if the air they are breathing is safe. Senator Robert Mellow should be helping the residents to get that answer. Senator Robert Mellow should not be protecting and accepting the money of the corporate giant of trash that could be harming residents.

Oscar says he has been hearing rumors the last few weeks floating about in Old Forge. Oscar says he hears that the corporate giant of trash and the borough are on speaking terms again....

If you're a resident of Old Forge and want landfilling to stay out of your borough...make sure you get to the Old Forge Council Meeting. Voice your opinion on the landfill to council.

The Blog has been created!

Well everyone it's time to talk about the issue at hand...ALLIANCE LANDFILL. We are hoping that this is a method that many residents in the community will respond to in discussing Alliance Landfill. Access to a computer is very common for most residents today.

The Blog has been created to talk about Alliance Landfill. Our group the Alliance Landfill Task Force welcomes all views on Alliance Landfill to this Blog. Please feel free to visit our website by clicking our website link. Also, should you need to e-mail us for any reason that can be easily done by clicking on the e-mail link. Both links can been found easily on the main Blog screen.

We just ask one favor of everyone who will take part in using this Blog. That favor is please use respect when writing comments. We all know that young children have access to home computers and the use of inappropriate language will not be tolerated in writings on this Blog. Any such writings will be reported to the proper authorities.

So start blogging about the landfill...
The Alliance Landfill blog will be updated daily.