NY Environmental Group’s Challenge to Waste Facility Revived

A New York appellate court revived a challenge to a proposed waste and recycling facility in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York that a nonprofit environmental group says would contaminate residents’ drinking water.

The New York Supreme Court Third Appellate Department on Thursday ruled that Seneca Lake Guardian has standing to sue since neither the operator of the proposed facility, County Line MRF LLC, nor the state environmental agency were able to rebut allegations that the leachate produced by the plant will contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—also known as forever chemicals, or PFAS—that will then be disposed of ...