The federal government has stopped sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio, a ripple effect after a judge intervened in a different matter and suspended plans for waste shipments from New York state, officials said Friday.
Since 2018, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been trucking material from Luckey, Ohio, where beryllium, a toxic metal, was produced for weapons and other industrial uses after World War II.
Wayne Disposal Inc., in Van Buren County, 25 miles west of Detroit, is one of the few landfills in the United States that can handle certain hazardous waste…