Recent Updates
Important Hearing Update
Last evening at the Board meeting the County Attorney, Kemper Beasley, reported that the lawsuit by CCLA against the County was closed.
Following the meeting, a call was placed to CCLA's attorney, to verify if this information was correct. Per our attorney, this information is
incorrect. Judge Cella issued an opinion he which he stated CCLA did not have standing (the right to sue). The process (as I understand it)
is that after the opinion is issued one of the lawyers has to submit a motion signed by all attorneys involved, for an court order signed by
Judge Cella to be completed. At this point, that court order has not been processed per CCLA's attorney.
CCLA is working with the attorney concerning all options available to us. We will keep you posted.
Thank you for your continued support.
Court Hearing Update - Thank You!!
CCLA just want to take a moment and thank each of you for you attendance at the Court hearing on Friday, August 7, 2026. It didn't go totally the way we would have liked, but it isn't a total loss. Judge Cella decided to take standing (CCLA's right to file the suit) under advisement and offer a written opinion hopefully within the week. So it wasn't a total loss. The best we can hope and pray for is that Judge Cella will rule in our favor.
Many of you brought friends and neighbors out, please share with them our appreciation of their participation - the room was almost packed to capacity. Thank You.
On Sunday we had several new faces at our Community Townhall Meeting. Thank you for your attendance and support. There was quite a discussion about how long corporations have been trying to put a landfill in Cumbrland County - this is their 3rd attempt and we cannot let them be successful. Attendees were updated on what occurred at the court hearing on Friday and that we have to wait for Judge Cella's opinion before moving forward. There was also a short discussion on what our future actions might encounter - if Judge Cella rules in our favor (which we hope and pray he does), then we move full speed ahead. If not, then it is decision time for us - do we want to stop at this point or move forward to appeal his decision.
The last thing discussed was fundraising and those present would like to look into having a BBQ. Therefore, in the near future the fundraisers will meet and take this under consideration. If you would like to be a part of this meeting, please let us know - there are many ways you can help. We do need the funds to meet legal costs - our biggest expense.
CCLA greatly appreciates your continued support. Each of you are an important part of where we are and what we have achieved -- Green Ridge has not turned over the first shovel of dirt! Matter of fact, DEQ returned their part Part B application to them in June due to incompleteness. Thank you.
2 More Days Until The Hearing!
Only 2 days to the court date of August 7, 2026, at 10 a.m. where the case filed by CCLA vs Board of Supervisors regarding the proposed Green Ridge landfill will be heard at the Cumberland, Virginia circuit court room. Please show your support to our cause and plan to attend this hearing - it would be greatly appreciated.
3 More Days Until The Hearing!
Only 3 days to the court date of August 7, 2026, at 10 a.m. where the case filed by CCLA vs Board of Supervisors regarding the proposed Green Ridge landfill will be heard at the Cumberland, Virginia circuit court room. Please show your support to our cause and plan to attend this hearing - it would be greatly appreciated.
4 More Days Until The Hearing
Only 4 days to the court date of August 7, 2026, at 10 a.m. where the case filed by CCLA vs Board of Supervisors regarding the proposed Green Ridge landfill will be heard at the Cumberland, Virginia circuit court room. Please show your support to our cause and plan to attend this hearing - it would be greatly appreciated.
July CCLA Updates
Hope everyone is staying safe in this heat — it’s been a scorcher. Please take care and avoid unnecessary risks; heat can sneak up on you.
Brief update:
Court hearing — August 7, 2026, 10:00 a.m., Cumberland Courthouse, Cumberland, VA. We remain on the docket. Please plan to attend; your presence and support are important.
CCLA Community Townhall — August 9, 2026, 3:00 p.m., Cumberland Community Center, 71 Community Drive, Cumberland, VA 23040. Given the court hearing two days earlier, we expect a full agenda and meaningful discussion.
Legal preparations — CCLA is working closely with our attorney to prepare for the court date. There is a lot involved; any support you can offer is greatly appreciated.
Host agreement update — The Second Amended and Restated Host Agreement that the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors acted on July 28, 2025, was signed by a Green Ridge representative (not Jerry Cifor) on April 24, 2026.
Keep writing — Please continue sending letters to the editor and contacting federal, state, and local officials. Keep our concerns about the proposed landfill visible.
We will share new information as it becomes available.
How you can help:
Yard signs: We have two yard-sign designs and stakes available at no cost. To request signs, email info@cclava.com, call 804-308-5748, or mail P.O. Box 238, Cumberland, VA 23040.
Volunteer needs: We also need help with fundraising, research, advertising, and other tasks. Please share your skills and volunteer if you can.
Your continuted support is vital as we approach new challenges in 2026. One important thing to remember we are being successful – we are now into our 9 th year of this marathon - and the proposed Green Ridge landfill (Jerry Cifor’s Legacy) has not found a home in Cumberland County.
THANKS TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU!!
ARE YOU PREPARED IN CASE OF A DISASTER??
Sunday, June 14th, Mr. Darren Hurley, Coordinator of Emergency Services, for Cumberland County has the answers for you. Mr. Hurley will discuss how to prepare for earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, hot weather, toxic chemical spills, and other topics.
When: 3 p.m.
Where: Cumberland Community Center, 71 Community Drive (Luther P Jackson School), Cumberland, VA.
Tim Cyinski from the Sierra Club will also discuss updates on Environmental Issues. You will find that Jim is very passionate about environmental issues and will share a wealth of information.
OTHER ITEMS
1. August 7 at 10 a.m. is the date and time of CCLA’s scheduled court date concerning the Appeal that was filed on August 27, 2025. The Appeal is related to the actions the Board took on July 28, 2025, of approving the conditional use permit 24-01 and the Second Amended and Restated Host Agreement. Our goal is to have the court room overflowing – so please plan to attend. In the meantime, we continue to work with our attorney on all legal issues related to the case.
2. CCLA participated at the Graceland Baptist Church yard sale on May 16th, and as a result deposited almost $1,000 into our account to help pay for legal costs. Sue is doing a fantastic job of selling things worth at least $40 on the marketplace for sale. If you have items you would like to donate, please contact us by email at info@cclava.com, call 804-308-5748, or mail us at P.O. Box 238, Cumberland, VA 23040.
3. We urge you to continue to write letters to the editor of papers, federal, state, and local officials. Keep our concerns with the proposed landfill in front of them.
4. Be assured, we try to you everyone informed and our website is one major way for communication. Word of mouth is also so good, so please share this post with others.
5. Help is also needed in other areas such as fundraising, research, advertising, and many other ways. Please help us by sharing your talents and volunteering.
YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT
is vital as we approach new challenges in 2026. One important thing to remember we are being successful – after almost 8 full years, the proposed landfill has not found a home in Cumberland County.
THANKS TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU!!
Do You Want THIS to Happen in Cumberland County?
Please see link below and then ask yourself two questions: (1) do we want this to happen in Cumberland County; and, (2) are the Cumberland firefighters properly equipped and ready for this? If the answer to both of these questions is NO, then we need to let County, State, and Federal officials to know we do not want or need the Green Ridge landfill in Cumberland County nor in Virginia. The Green Ridge landfill is NOT A DONE DEAL and it can be STOPPED.
Upcoming Dominion Energy Project Meeting in Cumberland
For those interested, please see the flyer below about the meeting.
Meeting info:
Thursday, April 23, 2026 5:30PM - 7:00PM
Cartersville Ruritan Club
2168 Cartersville Road, Cartersville, VA 23027
April 12 Townhall Meeting is Cancelled
The CCLA Townhall Meeting for this Sunday, April 12, 2026, is cancelled. We hope to see everyone at our June meeting as we are working on a special event for that meeting!
Thanks!
CCLA Leadership
We Need You’re Help!
CUMBERLAND COUNTY LANDFILL ALERT NEEDS YOU!!
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Donate time...finances...ideas!
Ideas - know new ways to help raise funds?
Donate skills to gather a group of like-minded people to help.
Time -have the ability to research?
Donate time to get the word out, emails, media, Instagram.
Money - no need to describe there!
Donate to our GoFundMe account - support monthly or one time, please!
Items - Donate items for our Yard Sale on May 16th at Graceland Baptist Church.
Donate items valued over $40.00 to our Marketplace dump.
No effort is too small; we are nearing the end zone... we just need you!
Contact Sue 804-536-4779 for more info.
Meeting Reminder - March 8th, 2026
Sharing a reminder for the meeting tomorrow on March 8th!
The time for the meeting is 3 p.m. at the Cumberland County Community Center, 71 Community Center Drive, Cumberland, VA (the Luther P. Jackson School). We will be providing updates on various issues and discussing future plans for 2026. Please plan to come and bring a friend or two. See flyer at the Events tab for more information.
February CCLA Update
March 8, 2026 – this is the rescheduled date for the meeting that was to be held in February and was cancelled due to the cold and icy weather. The time for the meeting
is 3 p.m. at the Cumberland County Community Center, 71 Community Center Drive, Cumberland, VA (the Luther P. Jackson School). We will be providing updates on
various issues and discussing future plans for 2026. Please plan to come and bring a friend or two. See flyer at the Events tab for more information.
Legal 2025 into 2026 – CCLA is currently working on two separate legal cases concerning the proposed Green Ridge landfill. The first one filed in September 2024 is still outstanding. The second one was filed in August 2025, as our Appeal of the actions taken by the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors at the Public Hearing on July 28, 2025. This was the date when the Board approved the Second Amended and Restated Host Agreement and conditional use permit 24-01 as related to the proposed landfill.
CCLA is now working with our attorney on these two cases which entails completing documents for both cases and submitting them to the Court, lawyer firm, and two judges.
At this point, CCLA has filed all the necessary paperwork requested and waiting on opposing counsel to take the next action. All the legal filings regarding these two cases, is now located under Legal Filings tab on this website. As of the date of this writing, it is still not known if Green Ridge has signed the Second Amended and Restated Host Agreement. To the best of our knowledge, no date has been set for a court hearing. When this information becomes available, we will post it on this website and use other media avenues to get the word out. Our goal is to have the court room filled to overflowing.
Website
We are in the process of updating and/or making changes to this website. Adding the tab and information is the first of many steps taken to improve our website. Please stay tuned for upcoming changes. If you have any recommendations please email them to us at info@cclava.com. Your input is important to us. We want our site to be user friendly and easy to navigate.
Request for Your Assistance
Do you have a particular talent such as letter writing, advertising, social media, computers, or others where you maybe can assist use? Are you a user or formal user of Mailchimp? If so, we sure could use your assistance as it is recommended for us to do a campaign and get a specific message out to the public. There are so many ways you can help CCLA in our efforts to stop the proposed landfill from coming to realization in Cumberland County.
Although monetary contributions, are always greatly appreciated, there are many other areas where you can volunteer. For example, you can with research, arrange for CCLA to do a presentation before a group or organization, help with manning a site to get people to sign our petition which will be presented to the DEQ when the time is appropriate, write letters, solicit donations from environmental groups or well-known individuals, and many more. Your help could be as simple as an idea for a fundraiser or volunteering to help with social media. The main, most important points to take from all this, your help is needed. Everything counts no matter how minor it may seem to you, it speaks volumes to us.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT!!
Petition – CCLA now has a NEW petition circulating for people who oppose the proposed landfill to sign. If you haven’t already done so, please sign it. This one contains a column for Cumberland County residents to indicate their district. It is important for us to do this, so when the time is right, we can present up-to-date information to DEQ. The electronic version is under the “Take Action” tab on this website and you can print it off and circulate to others for their signature and then turn it in to us. Please contact us if you need additional information or how to get the completed forms to the proper CCLA person.
There is strength in Unity and We are United!!
February Meeting Update
CCLA is cancelling our February 8, 2026, meeting due to the poor road conditions, as well as being Super Bowl Sunday.
We will share an updated meeting date/time as soon as possible. Enjoy your Sunday!
Happy New Year! 2026 Updates
WELCOME TO 2026.
CCLA wishes you the very best for the coming year.
Hopefully your holidays were joyful, healthy, and safe.
INFORMATION UPDATE
February 8, 2026 – this is our first meeting for 2026. Location is Cumberland County Community Center (Luther P Jackson School), 71 Community Drive, Cumberland, VA. Start time is scheduled for 3 p.m. or soon thereafter. At this time, we do not have a guest speaker scheduled. We feel it is important to provide updates on what has occurred since the July 2025 Public Hearing and decide on actions for the upcoming year. We will have hard copies of all the legal documents filed for your review at this meeting. We plan to also post the legal documents of this website. Please see the full schedule of meeting dates under the Events Tab.
January 14, 2026 – first day of the 2026 Virginia General Assembly session. Since this is an even-numbered year, the session is 60 days. We ask your help to look for bills that may foster our concerns with protecting our environment. We try to stay alert and let you know of certain bills as they progress through the Senators and Delegates bill procedures. Keep in mind we have new head leaders being sworn in during January 2026. Also, it might be an excellent idea to get a group together and visit the Delegates and Senators in unity. If interested, please contact us by email, phone, or in person.
Legal 2025 into 2026 – CCLA is currently working on two separate legal cases concerning the proposed Green Ridge landfill. The first one filed in September 2024 is still outstanding. The second one was filed in August 2025, as our Appeal of the actions taken by the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors at the Public Hearing on July 28, 2025. This was the date when the Board approved the Second Amended and Restated Host Agreement and conditional use permit 24-01 as related to the proposed landfill.
CCLA is now working with our attorney on these two cases which entails completing documents for both cases and submitting them to the Court, lawyer firm, and two judges. We should note Green Ridge filed legal documents in early December 2025, to intervene in both cases. Needless to say, it has kept us busy during the holiday season. At this point, we are awaiting responses to our latest filed documents. It was announced at the December Board of Supervisors meeting on December 22, 2025, that Green Ridge has not yet signed the Second Amended and Restated Host Agreement. Interesting, since during the time leading up to the Public Hearing, all we heard from Green Ridge was their need to get this landfill operational.
Need Your Help – CCLA certainly appreciates each of you and your continued support in preventing this proposed landfill from becoming a reality in Cumberland County. We hate to ask this of you, especially just after the holidays, but can you spare just a few dollars to donate to the cause. The Leadership Team is doing our best to keep expenses down. We are working closely with our attorney to keep legal costs down, but it is a necessary cost if we want to fight to save our environment. If everyone who reads this message donates just $5, it would be a great help to us and greatly appreciated. Please help us to protect your environment by fighting against the proposed Green Ridge landfill.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT!!
Petition – CCLA now has a NEW petition circulating for people who oppose the proposed landfill to sign. If you haven’t already done so, please sign it. This one contains a column for Cumberland County residents to indicate their district. It is important for us to do this, so when the time is right, we can present up-to-date information to DEQ. We closed out the original 2018 petition and sent the forms to the DEQ. Things changed over the last 7 plus years and it is important we keep our information current.
The petition is available in hard copy and in electronic copy. The electronic version is under the “Take Action” tab on this website. If you prefer a hard copy, it is included in this writing. This form gives you the opportunity to take it and ask your family, neighbors, friends to sign. (insert petition form here). Please contact us if you need additional information or how to get the completed forms to the proper CCLA person.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all who have supported CCLA! This is the time of year to reflect back on our journey so far, and we wouldn’t be where we are today in this fight without all of you. Thank you for the countless hours volunteered from everyone who wants to stop this landfill, and rest assured the fight is NOT over!
We look forward to 2026 and all the waves we will make in this process to stop this project from coming to fruition. The fight continues, and we can’t wait to see what 2026 brings!
Happy Thanksgiving!
From the whole team here at CCLA, we wish you and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving and want to tell you all how thankful for all of your support over the years!
The fight is NOT over yet, and we look forward to continuing to see this amazing community always come together to protect our environment and stop this landfill.
Get Your Questions Answered!
Please plan to attend this important meeting by DEQ and learn more about the permitting process for the proposed landfill. Thank you AMMD Pine Grove Project for the flyer - it says a lot. CCLA will be joining AMMD for the Protest at 4:30 p.m. - please plan to participate - we have signs or you can bring your own. There is strength in numbers - Let's show that we do not want or need the proposed landfill.
DEQ will have a public information meeting discussing the proposed Green Ridge landfill on October 15, 2025 from 6pm to 8pm at:
Cumberland High School
15 School St, Cumberland, VA 23040
There will be a DEQ presentation, followed by a Q&A.
Please plan to attend!
IT'S TIME TO PROTEST....Again!!!
Protest sign carriers join us in front of Cumberland High School from 4:30pm - 5:30pm!
Let your VOICE be heard!!
Meeting Still Scheduled for Today 10/12
As of now, today’s meeting is still planned to proceed as scheduled at 3 p.m. at the Cumberland County Community Center (Luther P Jackson School, 71 Community Drive, Cumberland, VA. Our guest speaker is Maurice Donikin, an environmental, health and safety professional. You may ask what he does – come out the meeting and find out because his occupation includes things like handling toxic waste, etc. Believe you may find it very interesting what he will share with us. (See full flyer under the Events tab on this website).. If there are any changes or updates, we will notify the media and post an update here.
Upcoming DEQ Meeting on 10/15
Virginia DEQ will hold a public informational briefing to discuss environmental permit applications being processed at the agency. Topics will include the agency’s review of air permit and solid waste permit applications, and public participation opportunities. If approved, these permits would allow Green Ridge LLC to construct and operate the Green Ridge Recycling and Disposal Facility in Cumberland County.
Visit the DEQ website, https://www.deq.virginia.gov/topics-of-interest/green-ridge-landfill.
This website has important information posted by DEQ concerning both Part B application and the Air Permit application. Any questions, please contact us at info@cclava.com