Summary
The EPA plans to mandate municipal waste incinerators to monitor hazardous pollutants like dioxins and PFAS, addressing a major source of toxic air pollution in low-income neighborhoods.
Environmental advocates welcomed the move, which impacts about 60 facilities nationwide, requiring tracking of roughly 800 chemicals from the federal toxic releases inventory.
Critics say incinerators falsely market themselves as “green” energy sources.
While the EPA excluded medical and sewage sludge incinerators due to staffing limits, it may address them later amid expected industry resistance.
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Should’ve been done long ago
I live next to that incinerator in the picture, in the Cherry Hill neighborhood. I’ve always wondered who’s bright idea it was to put that fucker right in the middle of downtown. Seriously, the inner harbor tourist area is literally only a mile or so from this thing. It’s completely surrounded by neighborhoods. It’s not like it was an old school existing factory either, it was built relatively recently.
Was the tourist area there when it was put there? Have the neighborhoods been gentrified? Because if so, the answer is it was built when black people lived there.
Yes, it was all there, everything was all there. This thing is relatively new and modern. They made a deliberate decision to put it there. It’s fucking with both the health of the low income residents as well as gentrified Federal Hill and those richer areas. (Baltimore is kind of a weird city where you can have a McMansion on one street, and two streets over have a row of rotting rowhomes all mixed in with each other).
I believe there is a city movement to have it demolished. They’ve been going at it for years.
