State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal, Cohen and others are knowingly stoking fake health claims about the site and encouraging protests. Numerous scientific tests conducted on the Westlake Landfill found that it is not hazardous to human health. In 2015, the EPA concluded:
“The available scientific data indicate that people living near and working outside the boundary of the West Lake Landfill are not currently being exposed to contaminants from West Lake Landfill that are above a level of concern.”
Though the Westlake Landfill has been operating for OVER 60 years without harming humans, the bureaucratic EPA placed it on the list for clean up over 25 years ago! It takes that long for the EPA to analyze, review and begin clean up of a site.
EPA officials, who promised to make a decision regarding the best way to cleanup the site by year’s end, delayed the process again to conduct more tests of the site. Cohen, who chained himself to a 500-pound concrete barrel outside the landfill to draw attention to his demands, along with Chappelle-Nadal and the activist group Just Moms are actually blocking the West Lake cleanup.
