Curtis Bay Incinerator

The Fairfield Renewable Energy Project is a proposed trash-to-energy power plant in South Baltimore that would burn garbage, chopped-up tires and car parts and release hundreds of pounds of lead and mercury annually. It's been embraced as a job-creator by the city and the state, but it continues to be opposed by residents and environmental groups who say it will harm people's health.

Key permit for Fairfield trash incinerator revoked

Destiny Watford on WYPR: “It wasn’t okay. It wasn’t fair!”

Prize-winning leader of the fight against the Curtis Bay incinerator speaks with Tom Hall.

Young leader of Curtis Bay incinerator fight wins international award

People dismissed their efforts as just a high school project, but Destiny Watford’s student-led group played a major role in killing a trash-burning power plant in her South Baltimore community. Today she is being honored with a $175,000 prize by a San Francisco foundation.

Maryland declares Energy Answers’ Fairfield incinerator permit expired

Demonstrators protested and even went to jail to persuade state officials to extinguish the permit for the Fairfield Renewable Energy Project. Today the Maryland Department of the Environment did just that.

Two groups will sue Energy Answers over trash-burning incinerator

Charges against Energy Answers incinerator protesters dropped

With trespassing charges against them dismissed today, the seven activists fighting a trash-to-energy plant near Curtis Bay went right back over to Maryland Department of the Environment headquarters at the Montgomery Park building – precisely where they were arrested a month ago.

Incinerator opponents, charged with trespassing, are released today

Incinerator protesters arrested at MDE headquarters

They had planned to drop off petitions written on sunflowers but ended up facing down scores of Baltimore police – and seeing seven of their group get arrested. What happened at today’s demonstration against the Energy Answers project, held at Maryland Department of the Environment headquarters

Poised to battle climate change in Paris, mayor sidesteps incinerator in Baltimore

A simple question asked on the radio: does her administration support the trash-burning power plant proposed in South Baltimore? Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, an early project booster who accepted campaign contributions from the N.Y.-based company behind it, said she didn’t have enough information to answer.

State sets deadline for Energy Answers to prove incinerator permit is valid

Is the state, under Hogan, actually cracking down on the Albany-based company trying to build a trash-burning plant in South Baltimore? The language in the Maryland Department of the Environment’s letter is stern, but the deadline the agency sets, opponents say, cuts them a break.

Opponents press state to declare Fairfield incinerator project dead

With a permit that’s expired and other job-generating – but non-polluting – projects waiting in the wings, shouldn’t a controversial South Baltimore incinerator project be declared dead, opponents are saying to state officials.

City ends pact with Fairfield incinerator developer

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South Baltimore incinerator opponents applaud stop-work order

Opponents of the Fairfield Renewable Energy Project take heart in state’s action to halt work at the South Baltimore incinerator. Company’s failure to buy pollution offsets throws into question its future compliance with the Clean Air Act and other laws, they say.

Making music from a plea about airborne mercury and materialism

If a planned trash-to-energy power plant ever gets built near Curtis Bay, Baltimore City Schools would, along with other entities under a 2011 contract, agree to buy power from it. Appearing before the school board, students spoke, sang and declaimed their opposition to this idea. “To burn, or not to burn?”

VIDEO: High school students march against South Baltimore incinerator

Pollution-weary students stage a march to protest incinerator

“We asked the students in one class how many had asthma and everyone’s hand went up!” A protest march yesterday against Energy Answers’ planned 160-megawatt trash-burning plant near Curtis Bay is the culmination more than a year of study and organizing as part of a unique collaboration of students and labor groups.

Anne Arundel officials and residents object to city trash-burning plant

Neighboring Anne Arundel County says no-thanks to a South Baltimore energy plant that would burn as much as 4,000 tons of tires, wood and car parts a day. Why, County Exec Leopold and others asked yesterday, weren’t they consulted?

With incinerator plan, Curtis Bay feels dumped-on again

If a power plant fueled by burning shredded tires, car parts and urban wood waste were proposed in Hunt Valley or Roland Park, how far would it get? One of the pungent questions asked at last night’s hearing.

Battle over South Baltimore trash incinerator re-igniting

A New York-based company says it needs more time to build a trash incinerator in Curtis Bay. At a hearing tonight, environmentalists and some city residents will argue it shouldn’t be built at all.

Trash-burning power plants pricey and polluting, environmentalists say

Bills would mean sweeter subsidy for trash incinerator

EPA: car-parts wrong fuel for SoBo trash-incinerator

Battle heating up over south Baltimore trash-burning plant

Truth or greenwashing? Proponents of power plant that would burn trash, old tires and car parts say it would be a clean, green source of renewable power and jobs.