CLEVELAND, Ohio – Plans to expand the solar farm on the old Brooklyn landfill are on schedule, while a similar effort to resurrect a contaminated landfill in Cleveland has run into a roadblock.

Both projects are part of a broader $129 million U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant awarded to Cuyahoga County, Cleveland and Painesville toward the end of the Biden administration.

Cuyahoga County Council recently approved both projects, although the one planned for the Harvard Road landfill, which straddles three cities including Cleveland, has been pared down and faces additional challenges.

The Brooklyn landfill project is expected to move forward without a hitch. The site already generates about four megawatts of solar-generated electricity. When it went on line in 2018, it was the f

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