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  • Burning Questions for MDE and Curtis Bay

    Burning Questions for MDE and Curtis Bay

    Protesters chant “MDE, enforce the law” and “Incinerator must go!” outside of the offices of the Maryland Department of the Environment in Baltimore. The protesters said that Energy Answers had failed to meet the conditions of their permit and that the company should not be allowed to construct an incinerator under an expired permit. Only…

  • Energy Answers Questioned. Why Students Are Fighting a Planned Incinerator Near their School.

    Benjamin Franklin High School teacher, Kelly Klinefelter Lee thanks students for their critical thinking skills and citizenship as they continue to study and object to the proposed Energy Answers Incinerator. The proposed incinerator would be built on property a mile from the school and would burn waste including car tires and car parts from Maryland…

  • Protest March Against Energy Answers Incinerator

    Students at Benjamin Franklin High School lead protest of the Energy Answers Incinerator planned for construction at a site a mile from the school. Students fear that the incinerator will bring waste including car parts and car tires from other other states and will add lead, mercury and fine particulate pollution to their neighborhood that…

  • Burning Issues – Curtis Bay, Maryland

    Burning Issues – Curtis Bay, Maryland

    Testimony on whether the Public Service Commission should allow the largest incinerator in the nation to be built at Curtis Bay, Maryland, where two schools are located within a mile.