The Nation - News from July 12, 1987

Environmentalists won a court injunction against a plan to burn the barge load of garbage that came back to Long Island after a 6,000-mile odyssey of rejection, a lawyer for the New York State Public Interest Research group said in New York City. City, state and town officials had agreed that the 3,186 tons of trash would be reduced to ashes and then buried at a landfill in Islip, where the problem began four months ago. Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden joined the environmental group in opposing the disposal plan. The group’s attorney, Randall Weiner, said that state Supreme Court Justice William Bellard scheduled a hearing for Monday.