Allentown Residents for Clean Air bring Incinerator Issue to the Voters

An exper­i­men­tal trash and sewage sludge incin­er­a­tor, planned in the heart of the His­pan­ic com­mu­ni­ty in the City of Allen­town, Penn­syl­va­nia is being chal­lenged by Allen­town Res­i­dents for Clean Air (ARCA). The group just sub­mit­ted over 2,000 sig­na­tures to put a Clean Air Ordi­nance we wrote on the Novem­ber bal­lot as an ini­tia­tive. If this bal­lot ini­tia­tive pass­es, Delta Ther­mo Ener­gy will have to com­ply with strict require­ments to do real-time mon­i­tor­ing of many tox­ic pol­lu­tants, and will have to dis­close the data on a web­site real-time. They’ll also have to con­trol their emis­sions so that they are as clean as a gas-burn­ing pow­er plant of the same size.  Con­sid­er­ing that the com­pa­ny is appeal­ing the most min­i­mal require­ments set by the state, it’s unlike­ly that they’ll pro­ceed to build the incin­er­a­tor if they have to com­ply with real stan­dards for account­abil­i­ty.  Read on for the group’s press release or check out a fly­er sum­ma­riz­ing the issue and the Clean Air Ordinance.