Fight against sludge dumping heats up in Schuylkill County

The supervisors of East Brunswick Township, a rural community south of Hometown, have voted to defend their anti-sludge-dumping ordinance from a challenge by the Pennsylvania Attorney General, the Times News reports. The supervisors have hired to defend the ordinance its author, Tom Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Nearby Rush Township, where Hometown is located, and the borough of Tamaqua recently became among the first municipalities in the country to adopt similar ordinances banning sludge dumping; CELDF also crafted those regulations, which so far have not faced legal challenges.