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Incinerator Bill Tabled by Medical Affairs Committee
An incinerator bill that would have exempted Covanta’s proposed Waste-to-Energy incinerator in Chester County has been tabled by the Senate’s Medical Affairs Committee and, as a result, will not go any further this year. The bill introduced by Senator Creighton Coleman, would have promoted the plan introduced by a New Jersey company, Covanta, owner and operator of forty other incinerators nationwide. It would have opened our state to more out-of-state garbage being dumped here.
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Read more: An Environmental Victory!
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It's Déjà Vu All Over Again
If you don't think that the Covanta Incinerator Plant isn't going to cause trouble in Chester County, South Carolina, you need to see this video about an incinerator in Chester, Pennsylvania.
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While winning a battle is good, it may have a direct impact on local economies that are experiencing record, high unemployment numbers. Environmentalists will hear that it’s our fault folks are without work. I think everyone would agree that jobs are needed, but should they come at any cost? With each environmental challenge we face, win or lose, the ultimate outcome is knowing that we have educated local and state legislators, general public and each other about the hazards and effects of that particular issue, whether it’s teaching that air emission pollution doesn’t end at the property or state line, or that the point-of-entry water pollution in flowing water doesn’t just float away.
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Read more: Johnson Controls and Covanta
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Economic Recovery Funding Clearing the Air and Creating Jobs in Charleston, SC
(ATLANTA – March 2, 2010) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator of Air and Radiation Gina McCarthy joined South Carolina State Ports Authority President & CEO Jim Newsome, S.C. Department Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) Deputy Commissioner Bob King, and SC State Department of Education Deputy Superintendent Betsy Carpentier and the private sector in an event that illustrated how funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are being used to improve air quality and create jobs in Georgia. The event included a tour and demonstration of how filters and cleaner engines installed on buses, trucks and other diesel equipment help to reduce the amount of harmful soot particles in the air.
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Read more: ERF Clearing the Air & Creating Jobs in SC
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 announced today that it is posting initial results of air sampling outside three schools in Tennessee that were selected as part of EPA's Schools Air Toxics Monitoring Initiative. Monitoring data from Vonore Elementary and Middle Schools and from West Greene High School were posted on the EPA's Web site today at http://www.epa.gov/schoolair/schools.html.
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