Company abruptly withdraws bid to bring out-of-state industrial waste to a landfill it is building near the Great Salt Lake

(Photo by Charles Uibel, courtesy of Friends of Great Salt Lake.) This major landfill is under development on the southern tip of Promontory Point in the Great Salt Lake. Promontory Point Resources is seeking a permit that would allow it to take out-of-state industrial waste.

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