It's A Pattern: BOCC Voting Against The Town.
The Nye County Board of County Commissioners is supposed to work for the people who live here. That is the job. The law even says so.
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How Nye County Facilitated Mediwaste To An Easy Approval
The county didn’t get fooled. It held the door open. It ran a hospital-waste burner through the easy permit, ignored the state’s own fire warning, buried an opposition letter and went quiet. Now the county still has to vote, and that is where Pahrump can still stop it.
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The people of Pahrump said no. Nevada signed the medical waste incinerator permit anyway.
The state issued MediWaste its permit on August 31. It can burn 41.4 tons of medical waste a day, the next block from the county courthouse. The permit calls it pyrolysis. The EPA has already ruled on that word. If you want to appeal, the clock runs out September 5.
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MediWaste... Why Four Different Plans
What MediWaste has not done. It has not tested a single one of its seven ovens on Pahrump medical waste. It has not tested them at the 4,000-pound batch size it proposes to run. It has not tested them, at all, at this site.
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