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  • Baltimore Incinerator Proposal Permit Yanked

    On March 17, the per­mit for the Ener­gy Answers trash incin­er­a­tor planned for the Cur­tis Bay neigh­bor­hood of Bal­ti­more, Mary­land was declared invalid by the Mary­land Depart­ment of the Envi­ron­ment, cap­ping years of protest from local res­i­dents and a stu­dent-led orga­ni­za­tion, Free Your Voice, part of Unit­ed Workers. The pro­posed incin­er­a­tor would be the largest in the nation,…

  • Maryland “Zero-Waste” Plan Draws Fire Over Inclusion of Incineration

    - by Tim­o­thy B. Wheel­er, Decem­ber 15, 2014, The Bal­ti­more Sun With Mary­lan­ders throw­ing away far more trash per per­son than the aver­age Amer­i­can, the O’Mal­ley admin­is­tra­tion released a long-range plan Mon­day to vir­tu­al­ly elim­i­nate plac­ing waste in state land­fills in the next 25 years. The plan is draw­ing mixed reac­tion, how­ev­er, as envi­ron­men­tal­ists crit­i­cize the blue­print­’s…

  • Baltimore Residents Face Potential Risks from New Incinerator

    - by Jaisal Noor, May 27, 2014, The Real News  VIDEO HERE JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: This is Bal­ti­more’s Ben­jamin Franklin High. Will a the coun­try’s largest incin­er­a­tor, being built just one mile from here, endan­ger the health of the stu­dents at the school? The Ener­gy Answers Fair­field Renew­able Ener­gy Project will burn 4,000 tons of trash,…