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Clean Air Baltimore Coalition4 days ago

Raise your hand if you want to be downstream of the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant operating again? Baltimore is the first major city downstream of this reactor site that sits on an island in the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg, PA. Of the two reactors there, Unit 2 melted down in 1979, and Unit 1 closed in 2019. Now, thanks to the Biden Administration’s massive pro-nuclear subsidies, there’s talk about reopening Unit 1. Should Baltimore City Council pass a resolution objecting to this? Let them know….

Mayor Brandon M. Scott, Baltimore City Council President Nick J. Mosby, Zeke Cohen, Councilwoman Danielle McCray, Councilwoman Sharon Green Middleton, Councilwoman Odette Ramos, Councilman Eric T. Costello, Councilwoman Phylicia Porter, Councilman Mark Conway, Councilman Isaac Yitzy Schleifer, Councilmember Kristerfer Burnett, Councilman John Bullock, Councilman James Torrence, Ryan Dorsey

Pa. is considering restarting a reactor at Three Mile Island, the site of a nuclear disaster in 1979

Constellation Energy is reportedly in talks to revive one of the units at the plant as the state explores energy options.

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Clean Air Baltimore Coalition2 weeks ago

Another one bites the dust! The Wheelabrator Portsmouth trash incinerator in Virginia just closed down for good Sunday. This was anticipated for well over a year, as the Navy stopped buying their steam, and this incinerator (owned by the same company that owns the one here in Baltimore) announced they’d have to close even though they have waste contracts that have not expired.

Now, just 65 commercial-scale trash incinerators remain in the U.S. Can we make sure Baltimore’s is next to close?

Virginia RDF facility operated by WIN Waste closes

The facility’s closure means more waste will be landfilled in southeastern Virginia. The refuse-derived fuel plant was affected by a fire and a new steam plant built by the U.S. Navy.

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“The city’s solid waste plan was biased in favor of incineration before it was even written, which is why we opposed the entire process,” said Mike Ewall, executive director of Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit coalition. “Studies show that burning trash and landfilling ash is far more harmful than landfilling waste directly, even if the city had to truck waste out of state. For the sake of public health and environmental justice, the city ought to prohibit any further contracts to burn the city’s waste.”

Our opposition to the biased, pro-incinerator, waste planning process started in 2017 and, in 2018, we got Baltimore City Council to unanimously oppose it and call for it to follow the Zero Waste Hierarchy instead. For details, see: https://www.cleanairbmore.org/solidwasteplan

Our work in 2020 to get city council to pass a bill to ban incinerator contracts was killed in committee by Councilmembers Costello and Stokes, who both just lost their primary re-election bids. Perhaps the new council will be willing to codify what Mayor Brandon M. Scott and others have said: that this is the last contract to burn the city’s trash. See more on that bill at https://www.cleanairbmore.org/policies — it’s the one at the top of the list and the only one that wasn’t actually adopted (yet).

Advocates Ask EPA to Investigate Baltimore City for Harming Disinvested Communities – Inside Climate News

A Title VI complaint alleges that the city’s latest waste management plan fails to devise a clear path away from trash incineration, further harming the adjacent communities.

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