Surrounded by Wilderness, the red outline depicts where 20,000 tons of Los Angeles’ garbage would be deposited daily for over 100 years. Despite claims made by the polluters, the dump will not reclaim the scars left from mining, but will actually double the size of disturbed lands by creating another scar from garbage burial. Aerial Photo Courtesy Howard Gross/NPCA, National Park Service
[From a press release issued today.]
Eagle Mountain, CA: On Friday, February 25, the Obama Administration dealt a heavy blow to the proposed Eagle Mountain dump at Eagle Mountain, nestled in the arms of Joshua Tree National Park. After nearly 24 years of defending the dump in court, the Department of Interior reversed its longstanding position and opposed the dump developer’s petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. This substantially weakens the developer’s case and may persuade the Supreme Court to reject the petition, leaving in place lower court rulings that protect the park.
CREDO Action, the activism arm of CREDO Mobile, alerted the public to the severe consequences to Joshua Tree National Park if the dump would go to fruition. The Action Alerts said in part,
“…Landfill impacts have a nasty habit of creeping over borders and boundaries. And Eagle Mountain would be an especially nasty neighbor.
There’s more at the Desert Protective Council. Thank you to everyone who signed the letter.
