EPA odors hearing draws strong protest

BY Paul E. Kostyu
The Canton Repository

COLUMBUS, OH - Don't do it.

That was the clear message sent Monday to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency by about 60 people who crowded into a hearing room to protest proposed changes to the state's air-pollution standards. The crowd overflowed into an adjoining room and included many who came by bus from Bolivar. Among them were state Rep. Alan R. Sayre, D-Dover, and David Held, executive director of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District.

The EPA proposed it not deal with all nuisance odors. It wants to disallow those odors that do not endanger public health, cause injury, damage property or are not restricted under other rules....Read more.