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Wildfire smoke from Bootleg Fire stretches all the way to the East Coast – CNN

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Wildfire smoke from Bootleg Fire stretches all the way to the East Coast – CNN

(CNN)The massive Bootleg Fire in Oregon has scorched an area larger than Los Angeles, and it's only 30% contained. The fire is so large and is burning so hot that it's creating its own weather.

It's just one of the many blazes raging in the West; the National Interagency Fire Center is watching 80 large fires across 13 states this week -- a testament to just how destructive the US wildfire season has become.

And the effects of the fires stretch all the way to the East Coast.

Pataki Is Cool to Expansion Of Landfill in Essex County – The New York Times

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Pataki Is Cool to Expansion Of Landfill in Essex County – The New York Times

Gov. George E. Pataki said yesterday that he was not inclined to support a plan that would allow garbage to be trucked for the first time into the Adirondack Park from a city outside the park's boundaries.

The proposal, made to state environmental and park officials by a financially strapped county inside the park, would expand operations at a county landfill so that five tons of garbage hauled there daily from nearby towns would be joined by up to several hundred tons of garbage a day from the city of Troy, more than 100 miles to the south.

Essex County – Ruling, February 29, 1996 – NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

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Essex County – Ruling, February 29, 1996 – NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

On December 4, 1995, Essex County filed with the Department's Region 5 Division of Regulatory Services an application to modify its existing solid waste management facility permit to increase the daily tonnage of solid waste received at the Essex County Landfill located off U.S. Route 9 in the Town of Lewis, Essex County. The requested permit modification would increase the maximum daily tonnage of waste allowed to be received at the landfill from 95 tons per day to 500 tons per day.

Essex County wants to extend landfill contract | Local News | pressrepublican.com

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Essex County wants to extend landfill contract | Local News | pressrepublican.com

When the state closed the Essex County Landfill, it offered the county an annual payment not to run one.

"What helps us, too, is we do get that $300,000 subsidy from the state toward the landfill and transfer-station costs," Palmer said.

The county spent $7 million in 1991 to build a landfill in Lewis and in 1995 contracted with Serkil to run the facility.

Problems arose when Serkil began bringing in outside trash, including solid waste from the City of Troy.

An outcry from environmental groups reported in a New York Times article prompted then-Gov. George Pataki to promise there would be no municipal landfills in the Adirondack Park.

Pataki got the county funding to pay off the landfill, which was closed in 1998, and to subsidize Essex County's garbage disposal.

After the landfill closed, the county contracted with Serkil to transport trash to other sites, then shifted to Franklin County when a better price was offered.

How Ketchup Works

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Selects: How Ketchup Works

7/17/21 by iHeartRadio

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/125880519
Episode: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/5899E/traffic.megaphone.fm/HSW3891395995.mp3

Little-known fact: Ketchup, possibly the most all-American of condiments, evolved from fermented fish sauce people in Southeast Asia have been making for more than a thousand years.