EPA responds to memo story about landfill

By ZACH LINT
The Times-Reporter

EAST SPARTA - Mike Settles, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency spokesman, said Tuesday that the EPA wasn’t accurately portrayed in a Sunday Akron Beacon Journal article that detailed an internal agency debate over a possible landfill fire at Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility at East Sparta.

Settles said the story, which cited memos and conversations among officials at the Columbus and Twinsburg EPA offices, made it sound like the EPA was hiding knowledge of a fire from the public.

“That’s just not true,” Settles said. “We’ve been up front about this from the start, and I’m bothered by the tone of the Beacon Journal article that basically said the EPA kept people in the dark.”...Read more.