Dive Summary:

• The possible environmental impacts led the city council to formally oppose a permit request from Louisiana Land Acquisitions LLC, who want to construct the facility.
• The proposal for the new landfill states that it would process 11,000 wet tons of non-hazardous solids each week, and would include waste from manufacturing processing, agricultural chemicals, food byproducts and fertilizers.
• Louisiana Land Acquisitions was denied a permit in 2008 as there is a landfill within two miles of the proposed site, however, industrial waste is not processed at that location, which led to the application for a new permit.

From the article:

"Currently, businesses have to truck their waste out to landfills in Ascension, Livingston, and other surrounding parishes, the company's application says."

"East Baton Rouge city-parish officials do not have any special standing in the permitting discussion, and "from an official standpoint, they are part of the public."