Dunmore Borough Council vice president, Janet Brier, tells Chris Kelly, The Times-Tribune that she let Governor Josh Shapiro know that she's sick of excuses and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection needs to monitor the landfill smells, not the citizens, and fix the problem they caused by approving the expansion.

“The process is clearly broken,” Janet said. “They (DEP) have the mandate and the power to fix the process. They are responsible for fixing it. They approved the expansion, they have the responsibility to protect us going forward.

“I don’t want to hear about anybody up there (at the landfill) and what they’re doing or what they’re saying. What I want to hear is what DEP is going to do.”

It’s a fair question, and one DEP officials should have anticipated when — as an agency tasked with the protection of the environment and the people living in it — they approved the dumping of more than 94 million tons of trash over four decades in the midst of schools, homes, neighborhoods and businesses. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Janet raised a stink with the governor over the stench.

“We don’t deserve to live with this,” she said. “No one deserves to live with this.”