By Ian Round
Capital News Service
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has signed a bill to tighten toxic emissions standards on the two trash incinerators in the city, where the health department has documented that residents breathe some of the country’s dirtiest air.
“I want clean air,” she told a small audience in New York City recently. The Energy Justice Network, which advocated for the bill, shared the video of her speech on Facebook. Her signature on the bill came on March 7.
But one price of cleaner air may be that the city’s main trash incinerator will close. Wheelabrator Baltimore, which burns the majority of the region’s trash and is the 10th-biggest incinerator in the country, said the regulations in the Baltimore Clean Air Act could put them out of business.
Pugh said the Wheelabrator incinerator “is going to be shut down.”
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11 comments:
How about clean thug areas ?
it can not get the thugs under control this will do nothing.
At least the thugs can breath easy while committing crimes with there Unregistered weapons ?
Not before they burn the books that she sold to the University of Maryland Medical System.
With all the thugs in Baltimore there wont be anybody there to breathe the air.
Gonna be really hard to get clean air in Baltimore when Mayor Pugh has such a stench surrounding her at all times.
One of the incinerator's selling points was that it would be "clean".
As well as Mosby!
Dirty mayor misdirecting in push for clean air.
No incinerator? Let the garbage pile up in Baltimore, nobody will notice anyway.
Look at the several mounds of trash they have built and have methane gas burning from the pipes sticking out of these mounds. Are they going to cap off these flaming pipes of gas? Where is this gas going ? Into the air. What are they going to do with the trash?
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