Baltimore Group Files Civil Rights Complaint Over Incinerator

Advocates from South Baltimore launched a Title VI civil rights complaint against the state’s largest trash incinerator located within an environmental justice community.

The advocates are targeting 10-year solid waste management plan laid out by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works, claiming it doesn’t do enough to phase out the use of the Baltimore Refuse Energy Systems Company (BRESCO) incinerator—formerly called the Wheelabrator.

Complainants balk at the city’s language in the plan regarding incineration phase-out: that, "[u]ntil there is universal, coordinated adoption of waste diversion practices across public and private sectors, it is likely that [BRESCO] will continue to ...