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.
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.