The MOU that Council President Cohen negotiated is faulted for ignoring those rivers of runoff coming from the project , one of which The Brew documented after yesterday’s rainstorm.

The state allowed a North Baltimore facility to begin incineration operations without stack and opacity tests; the York Road facility had a second release after the first was reported.

Belair-Edison residents sent emails, made 311 complaints and watched as violations and fines piled up, but still the garbage remained. Finally, they gave up on city government and took matters into their own hands.