From: Sylvia Broude, Toxics Action Center
Subject: It's his call.
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 11:00 AM
It's all up to the Governor now.
The Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) is about to let trash
companies build new dirty trash incinerators in Massachusetts for the first time
in more than 20 years, and only the Governor can stop it.
The final decision could happen in the next 60 days, but I expect it to happen in as soon as two weeks. Scarily, waste companies are already poised with plans ready to build new trash incinerators.
Along with our partners, we already sent
11,000 petitions to the Department of Environmental Protection,1
but the buck stops with Governor Patrick. Only the Governor can stand up
to the trash lobby to uphold our 20-year moratorium on new trash
incinerators.
As you may know, in December, MassDEP proposed lifting Massachusetts' 20-year-old moratorium on expanding trash incineration. We have this moratorium for good reason: burning trash releases tons of toxic pollution into our air and is the opposite of reduce, reuse, recycle.2 We need the Governor to turn this around. Send a quick email now. Thanks for all you do,
Sylvia Broude
Executive Director Toxics Action Center |
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