Rattlesnake FightRattlesnake FightThe Rattlesnake Alliance for Sustainable Development charges Waste Management (WMI) with secretly attempting to build a landfill in Alabama. According to the alliance the 1000+ acre landfill will receive waste from fifteen states including New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Evidently the Alabama Department of Environmental Management had failed to notify local Perry County residents of the proposal until they This Alabama controversy follows upon the famous Emelle superfund site. The Emelle site was the most controversial site owned by Waste Management during the 1980s. Then in 1996 Federal Judge fined WMI $91 million for illegalities which were found up the entire executive management of the company.
The Rattlesnake Alliance claims both environmental and human racism as plans will build the landfill on an old cotton plantation near Uniontown on an old slave cemetery. The alliance asks the following questions: "What will be the environmental effects of dumping 7500 tons of waste a day on a poor rural community?" Will the graves of slaves who worked on this cotton plantation be desecrated and destroyed?" Other questions follow.
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