Waste Management of Ohio, Inc. v. Board of Health

French, Judge.

{¶ 1} These consolidated cases arise from the attempted licensing of a solid waste transfer station in Cincinnati, Ohio. For the reasons we state here, we affirm the decisions of the Environmental Review Appeals Commission (“ERAC”), which reversed the decisions of the Cincinnati Board of Health and ordered the board to issue the licenses.

{¶ 2} Waste Management of Ohio, Inc. (“WMO”), is a wholly owned subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc. (“MWI”), the largest solid waste service provider in the United States. WMO owns a 93-acre tract of land located within Cincinnati, commonly…