A national refuse company has lost nearly a billion dollars in income and spent a billion more trying to satisfy a dozen “green” agencies in California with conflicting demands and regulations that have kept Los Angeles’s second largest landfill shut down for nearly two years.
That’s the case with a 639-acre Chiquita Canyon Landfill, which was shut down on New Year’s Day in 2025 after a gang of regulators began acting on complaints from nearby residents of odors. A class action lawsuit was filed claiming the fumes were the source of, among other conditions, “headaches, dizziness, eye, nose, and throat irritation, as well as mental health concerns.”
Nuisance odors were one thing. But claims of serious health conditions allegedly suffered by people miles away were another, though they appear unsupported by two health studies at the height of the odor problem, according to documents reviewed by Breitbart News in its investigation of the controversy…