EPA split on landfill

By Bob Downing and Dennis Willard
The Akron Beacon Journal

EAST SPARTA - As early as last summer, a sharply divided Ohio Environmental Protection Agency began using a dreaded F-word, sparking "an intense internal debate'' about conditions at a large landfill in southern Stark County.

The F-word -- fire -- was used in writing by an EPA worker reporting to his superiors on Aug. 1, 2006, and again in a Sept. 13 letter by a state EPA worker who asked for help from the federal EPA.

In the meantime, however, the public was kept in the dark about a possible fire....Read more.