Tennessee Communities Push Back Against Out-Of-State Waste Corporations

SOCM Communications
Oct 14
1 min read

In Rutherford County, the fight over where Tennessee’s trash goes is reigniting. Local leaders said corporate influence is threatening a decades-old law that allows counties to decide what gets built in their own backyards.

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