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-October 5, 2016 It’s been 5 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days, or a total of 1,936 days since the public citizens of Waller County found out about a potential 250 acre mega-landfill being proposed in Hempstead, Texas on June 18, 2011. During that long

CITIZENS AGAINST THE LANDFILL IN HEMPSTEAD’S INITIAL COMMENTS ON THE APPLICATION OF PINTAIL LANDFILL FOR A LAND USE COMPATIBILITY DETERMINATION, TCEQ PROPOSED MSW PERMIT NO. 2391 COMES NOW, Citizens Against the Landfill in Hempstead (“CLAH”), and files these Initial Comments on Pintail Landfill, LLC’s (“Pintail” or “Applicant”)

By Lillie Ruby Reporter Brookshire Times Tribune During a hearing on September 2 former elected officials Glenn Beckendorff, Stan Kitzman and Frank Pokluda were: “Commanded to observe the said order of our court,” by the 1st District Court of Appeals. This order was a response to fees

Below is a request from Rep. Cecil Bell for a public meeting regarding the Pintail Landfill Municipal Solid Waste Permit Application No. 2391.

Below is the response letter to TCEQ Executive Director from the Citizens Against the Landfill in Hempstead.

Below is the response letter to TCEQ Executive Director from the City of Hempstead.

BY EMILY FOXHALL A Georgia-based company on Wednesday announced it had initiated a new application to build a controversial landfill in Waller County, bringing renewed attention to a project that a citizens group and several county commissioners have actively opposed. Earlier this year, Commissioner John Amsler had

On June 23, 2016, the 1st Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal of Glenn Beckendorff, Stan Kitzman, and Frank Pokluda, wherein they tried to appeal the Settlement Agreement and Agreed Judgment that was entered into by Waller County, the City of Hempstead, and Citizens Against the Landfill

Developer purchases property in Waller County where it proposed to build rejected landfill project The battle over a controversial landfill proposal in Waller County may not be over despite a state agency’s recent rejection of the project. Green Group Holdings, LLC, recently purchased the 723-acre parcel on

This morning, May 4, 2016, the TCEQ issued a letter to all parties in the Pintail Landfill, LLC MSW No. 2377 landfill application matter stating that the TCEQ no longer has jurisdiction to act on the application. As you will recall, Pintail had recently, on April 8,