Dive summary:

• Federal judge Reed O’Connor turned over a Dallas law that allowed only one landfill for commercial trash dumps, criticizing city leaders for fabricating environmental justification.
• Passed in 2011, the law restricted residents and businesses to take all waste to the McCommas Bluff Sanitary Landfill in southeast Dallas whereas before the law, residents could take their trash to several other landfills in the city.
• The city claimed the restriction would reduce illegal dumping while increasing recycling and cost efficiency.

From the article:

A federal judge squashed a Dallas law that set one landfill for commercial trash dumps, blasting city leaders for lying about the environmental justification.
U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor imposed a permanent injunction on the flow-control ordinance Tuesday. Passed in 2011, the law forced haulers to take trash from the city to the McCommas Bluff Sanitary Landfill in southeast Dallas. Before the ordinance, they were allowed to take the trash to several other landfills in the city and in the surrounding suburbs. ...