* Warning: This is an unofficial, introductory copy of the bill.
The official copy considered by the City Council is the first reader copy.
Introductory*
City of Baltimore
Council Bill R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Reisinger, Councilmember Clarke, and Councilmember Burnett
A Resolution Entitled
A Council Resolution concerning
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Defending the Baltimore Clean Air Act
For the purpose of requesting that the Mayor’s Office and the Law Department drop all settlement negotiations and rigorously and zealously defend the Baltimore Clean Air Act in the City’s appeal before the Fourth Circuit; and requesting further that the Mayor’s Office not consider any new contract that calls for incinerating the City’s trash and that the Mayor’s Office enter into a good-faith dialogue with Zero Waste advocates to reaffirm the path forward outlined in Baltimore’s Fair Development Plan for Zero Waste that does not rely on incinerating City waste after 2021.
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The Baltimore Clean Air Act was enacted by the Mayor and City Council on March 7, 2019. The Baltimore Clean Air Act requires that, starting in September 2020, the 2 large waste incinerators in the City use modern technology to monitor and disclose their air pollution and that these incinerators meet modern requirements for controlling 4 major air pollutants.
One of the waste incinerators in question is the Wheelabrator Baltimore trash incinerator, which burns up to 2,250 tons per day of trash from the City, 6 Maryland counties, and 7 other states. The other waste incinerator is Curtis Bay Energy, the nation’s largest medical waste incinerator, which accepts medical waste from 20 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada.
Wheelabrator is the City’s largest air polluter. According to the U.S. Environmental Protecti...
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