Less than two weeks after a judge approved a $6.8 million settlement of a class action brought by residents near the smoldering, putrid-smelling Bridgeton, Mo., landfill, objectors have filed 14 new suits against the landfill’s owner.
On Aug. 1, U.S. District Judge Thomas Mummert III of the Eastern District of Missouri signed off on the deal in Buck v. Republic Services that was backed by three-quarters of the 1,240 residents in the 400 homes closest to the landfill, where garbage about 100 feet below ground has been smoldering for more than three years.
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