By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Waste Management’s attempt to corral Coconut Creek’s longstanding opposition to expanding the mountainous, odoriferous Monarch Hill landfill with offers of cash and environmental incentives fell flat Monday afternoon when city commissioners voted unanimously to reject it.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
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To dump, nor not to dump. That is the question.
At 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, giant Waste Management will ask the Broward County Commission to alter the county’s land use designation on the site of a decommissioned waste-to-energy plant on company property that could provide it with 24.2 acres of new dumping ground adjacent to its towering Monarch Hill landfill in North Broward.
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