Tag: trash

  • Chester, PA Residents Air Concerns over Covanta Trash Incineration Plan

    UPDATE: despite strong organizing efforts, an outpouring of community opposition and strong research we’ve compiled to show how awful this plan is, city council voted unanimously on Aug 13th to approve Covanta’s plan that allows 30 years of New York City waste to be brought by train to Chester for incineration.  In fact, it’ll go…

  • Maryland Dumps Incineration

    – by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network VICTORY!!  For a second year in a row, pro-incinerator legislation in Maryland was defeated.  This stealthy legislation was written by Covanta (the nation’s largest trash incineration company) and would put Maryland on the path to burning nearly all of the waste that isn’t recycled.  The legislation takes the Renewable Portfolio…