Baton Rouge officials object to landfill approval

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Baton Rouge official wants to consider suing to block an industrial waste landfill in north Baton Rouge.

City-parish Councilman Trae Welch told The Advocate (http://bit.ly/1ngQJOr) that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality should appear before the council to explain its approval of the landfill when “every single elected body went on record saying they did not want it.”

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