MAINE ENACTS A NEW WASTE LAW.

In April of last year, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed a new law closing a loophole that allowed out-of-state waste to be buried in the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Alton. When the state purchased the Juniper Ridge Landfill in 2003, state law required that only Maine waste be buried there. But Casella, the operator of the landfill, and ReSource, a waste processor, took advantage of a loophole that allowed waste processed in Maine to be considered "in-state." They disposed of thousands of tons of out-of-state construction and demolition debris at the landfill, violating the intent of the law, taking up needed capacity at the site...