It comes as a shock but waste dumps can be built in North Carolina without an environmental study to determine the potential harm when they are put in flood plains or near a water supplies. The Environmental Review Commission (which is studying four mega-trashdumps out of state companies plan to build here to bury garbage from New York, Massachusetts, and other states) is considering urging the legislature to toughen the regulations – before the moratorium on the dumps expires next year.

In the meantime North Carolina still looks like the easiest place to call home for corporations seeking a new spot to bury their trash. It’s also no wonder the waste companies have put a battalion of lobbyists to work courting legislators.

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