Public comment at a public meeting of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
I’m Chloe Humbert. I have no financial conflicts of interest to declare. I’m retired, part-time self-employed, and speaking for myself and not on behalf of any organization.I live in the city of Scranton in northeastern Pennsylvania. I live maybe 4 or 5 miles as the crow flies from a landfill to the east in Dunmore, and this dump mountain can be clearly seen from parts of my neighborhood in north Scranton. The prevailing wind is typically from the west or southwest. But sometimes I know when the wind changes direction and comes from the east because my nose and throat burns, and there’s a foul smell. There is a way to report this to DEP but there is not a way to find out what it is, what’s causing it, and what it contains. What effect is this having? I have also written to my representatives about this from the mayor up to the president and every rep in between. Everything seems to be one way and rather like shouting into a hole. I would like to have a way to get information, ask for study of situations like this, transparency, and an interactive process available on environmental issues.