A judge has imposed a $1 million fine against the owner of an unlicensed landfill outside of Atlanta whose towering mountains of debris burned for eight months.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the judge also ordered Tandy Ross Bullock to remove all waste from the six-acre site within 120 days, as well as create and take precautionary measures to prevent environmental pollution.
The landfill lies about 13 miles southwest of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in the city of South Fulton, where residents have been dealing with sulfur-scented smoke from the blaze since September.
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