{"id":165384,"date":"2023-04-21T21:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T02:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=165384"},"modified":"2023-04-24T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T05:24:22","slug":"yost-new-campaign-to-help-crack-down-on-illegal-dumpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/04\/21\/yost-new-campaign-to-help-crack-down-on-illegal-dumpers\/","title":{"rendered":"AG touts campaign on illegal dumping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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COLUMBUS — Just in time for Earth Day, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and his environmental enforcement team unveiled a $1.1 million initiative to help communities statewide crack down on polluters who use their backyard \u2013 or someone else\u2019s property \u2013 as an enormous garbage can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has announced a $1.1 million statewide initiative aimed at cracking down on people who openly and illegally dump trash on private property or elsewhere. Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShine a Light on Dumpers\u201d is a multipronged campaign designed to expose illegal open dumping of solid wastes \u2013 including scrap tires, demolition debris and more \u2013 and to eliminate these inexcusable eyesores from Ohio neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want local law enforcement, prosecutors and the public to know what they can do to combat the unsightly and unhealthy problem of dumping \u2013 and how my office can help them,\u201d Yost said. \u201cIt\u2019s time to reclaim our communities from these polluters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shine a Light on Dumpers will be rolled out in phases, beginning with new online resources focusing on awareness, legal guidance, training, and investigative\/prosecutorial assistance from the Attorney General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attorney general\u2019s Environmental Enforcement Section (EES) has two units that deal with environmental crimes statewide: BCI\u2019s Environmental Enforcement Unit and the Criminal Prosecution Unit. Although the units often work cases referred to them by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency or the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, they also work directly with local law enforcement agencies and prosecutor\u2019s offices and are available, upon request, to help investigate and prosecute cases of solid-waste dumping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Another aspect of the initiative\u2019s first phase will kick off in July, when AGO experts begin presenting monthly seminars across the state for police officers, sheriff deputies, sanitarians, code-enforcement officers and prosecutors. Attendees will learn how best to investigate incidents of open dumping and open burning of solid wastes as well as other environmental crimes, and receive the necessary legal framework for prosecuting such crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yost has earmarked $1.1 million from the proceeds of a Volkswagen settlement for Shine a Light on Dumpers, with the bulk of the money going toward the second phase of the initiative. Phase 2 will focus on supplying technical equipment to law enforcement agencies that are battling solid-waste dumping in their jurisdictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent staff\/submitted information COLUMBUS — Just in time for Earth Day, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and his environmental enforcement team unveiled a $1.1 million initiative to help communities statewide crack down on polluters who use their backyard \u2013 or someone else\u2019s property \u2013 as an enormous garbage can. \u201cShine a Light on Dumpers\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 07:35:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165384"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165448,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165384\/revisions\/165448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}