COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers are talking trash.
A Senate panel on Tuesday is set to discuss a proposed statewide moratorium on new or expanded landfills.
Proponents say the landfills can bring in millions of dollars each year for cash-strapped counties and are environmentally safe.
But conservationists and residents who say they don't want to live near ever-rising mounds of garbage say a state with the motto "Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places" shouldn't be the nation's pay toilet.
Two of the proposed dumps were in the Pee Dee -- Marlboro and Williamsburg Counties.
The proposal, sponsored by five Democrats and four Republicans, would halt any potential expansion or creation of landfills until 2011.
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