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Waste Management advertising was prominently featured throughout the Ohio High School Football Championships on scoreboards, and as depicted here, an inside back cover color ad from the official OSHAA State Championships game program.

Health board still fighting transfer station
By Gregory Korte Enquirer staff writer
Weds., Dec. 14, 2005

The Cincinnati Board of Health is continuing its quixotic battle against garbage, voting 7-1 on Tuesday to deny a permit for a waste transfer station in Winton Place.

It was the fifth time since 2001 that the Board of Health voted to deny the permit to Waste Management of Ohio, which owns the former Environmental Land Development Association landfill on Este Avenue. The first four times, the garbage hauler won the permit on appeal to the state.

The difference this time, environmental activists say, is that Cincinnati City Council is considering an environmental justice ordinance that would require the city to take health risks into account before issuing building or zoning permits for a pollution-generating facility – especially in Mill Creek neighborhoods already polluted by more than a century of industrial contamination. . Read more