For the past 40 years organized citizens and small businesses have successfully defeated proposed incinerators in over 400 cities and counties in the US. Each confrontation was unique even as they shared common elements: Opponents of garbage incineration used facts against the administration’s public relations, focused at the local level where elected officials are most vulnerable … Read More
Destiny Watford of the Curtis Bay community in Baltimore, MD, just became the second anti-garbage incinerator activist to win The Goldman Environmental Prize, a prestigious award given annually to one leader from each continent. Rossano Ercolini, a school teacher from the town of Capannori in Tuscany, Italy, won the prize for Europe in 2013 for his efforts … Read More
The best way to defeat proposed incinerators has proven itself once again: community organizing. The Maryland State Department of the Environment pulled the permit on the proposed 4,000 ton per day incinerator to be built in the long suffering industrial communities of Curtis Bay-Brooklyn on the Fairfield Peninsula in south Baltimore. Curtis Bay and Brooklyn are … Read More
Residents and environmentalists said Wednesday they plan to sue a power plant company that is developing a facility in the Fairfield area of Baltimore. The group said in a news release Energy Answers is violating the Clean Air Act by proposing to move forward with the plant using a permit they said is expired. In a … Read More
I think the writers who periodically “trash” recycling as ‘broken’, ‘wasteful’, ‘outweigh the benefits’ are secretly in love with recycling. They write their pieces in order to give recyclers a chance to respond with proper answers on a broader platform. Bob Gedert’s article ‘National Recycling Coalition Sets the Record Straight’ (NRC News, January 7, 2016) is … Read More
Melanie Scruggs of the Texas Campaign for the Environment provides this update on developments in Houston. “The new Houston mayor will NOT pursue the dirty MRF program that may have included gasification or pyrolysis! The (national anti incineration) network has been indispensable in what we hope is a close victory.” Recent news on the issue: What … Read More
We pass along media coverage of the dramatic community protests at the Maryland Department of the Environment in Baltimore, MD, on December 15, 2015. Citizens demanded that the Department rescind permits for a 4,000 ton per day garbage incinerator. United Workers Photo Gallery: 7 Arrested Demanding State Revoke Permit for New Baltimore Incinerator– Real News Seven … Read More
For the past three years, residents of Syracuse and Onondaga County, NY, have sent only 315,000 tons of garbage to the County’s garbage incineration plant. There has been less trash generated in the county and recycling programs have become more effective. Unless the tonnage sent to the plant increases the county will incur a penalty to … Read More
Citizens of Curtis Bay in south Baltimore are fending off a 4,000 ton per day garbage incinerator proposed for their community of 15,000 residents already subjected to heavy industrial pollution. The plant, which would burn garbage from outside the city will contribute 240 lbs of mercury and 1,000 lbs of lead to the air annually. If … Read More
