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.

Members of the South Carolina Sierra Club from all across the state were at the Statehouse yesterday during our Lobby Day, and many of them spoke with several Senators about this important environmental issue.

This is an important victory for South Carolina and for Chester County, but it isn’t a complete victory.  We need to let all the Senators in the state that incineration is neither a green nor a viable method of generating energy.

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