BALTIMORE (WJZ)– The RESCO plant sits at the end of Russell Street, near Baltimore’s two sports stadiums.
Basically it’s a combination of an incinerator and a power plant, it burns Baltimore’s trash to make steam and generate electricity, but that isn’t all it makes.
“The plant emits nitrous oxide, ozone and fine particulate matter,” said Alison Prost of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
Prost says for people with asthma, COPD and heart disease, it makes it harder for them to breath.
“This just makes it that much harder to breathe and all the impacts that come from that,” she said. “Emergency room visits, heart attacks.”
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6 comments:
First of all the Chesapeake Bay Foundation is one of the biggest snowflake organizations in the state. There is no proof any of the listed by-products are harmful......Nitrous oxide is laughing gas and is used to fuel whipped cream cans. Ever go to the dentist and "take some gas". Nitrous oxide is what they use. The fine particulate matter falls to the ground with in minutes and very little of it is ingested. That incinerator works at such high temperature that it even burns hazardous gasses. Ozone (which is nothing more that a triple oxygen molecule) is so light that it travels up into the ionosphere. Ozone actually helps protect us from the suns harmful UV rays. The report is loaded with the words might, may and possible. And you the Maryland taxpayer just paid for this study of BS.
I just inhale and I feel as it I can fly!!!!
Cheaper than Maryland medical weed.
Yeah. We should all go back to burning our trash in a barrel in the backyard.
Chesapeake Bay foundation is a left wing organization whose main goal is to bilk the tax payer out of as much money as possible . I worked for this company in the 80s and already had asthma and it never affected me or made me worse. This is just another attempt at a shakedown.
Everyone saying negative things about the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Amen!
"Everyone saying negative things about the Chesapeake Bay Foundation...'
That's because there is nothing positive to say about them!
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