Los Angeles-The U.S. Supreme Court may be the next venue for the legal battle over Los Angeles and Orange County trucking biosolids for land application into Kern County. Kern County banned trucking of biosolids in 2006 after an overwhelming vote by residents of the unincorporated area, and the matter has been in court ever since. Los Angeles and Orange County argue Kern is illegally interfering with interstate commerce and is violating the state requirement to recycle this material. In the meantime, Los Angeles and Orange County have been spreading more than 420,000 tons a year in two locations in Kern County, one of them a Los Angeles-owned farm that is slightly less than 5,000 acres, and the other on privately-owned land. Some 26 “very large trucks” make the trip daily.
Transparency Across the Fertilizer Value-Chain