Air Quality & Environmental Justice Talk

Location

On Campus

Date & Time

February 28, 2017, 1:00 pm2:00 pm

Description

University Center, Room 312

On 
Tuesday, February 28 at 1 pm,GES 429 will host a discussion of environmental justice and health issues related to Baltimore's waste-to-energy incinerator, BRESCO. Professor Dawn Biehler has organized the event and the guest speaker will be an attorney from the Environmental Integrity Project and activists from United Workers and Free Your Voice. Students and faculty are welcome to attend. 

Environmental Integrity Project and Workers United are organizing around the Wheelabrator (BRESCO) waste-to-energy incinerator in Baltimore. EIP is trying to hold BRESCO to higher environmental standards under the Clean Air Act, and Workers United is working on source reduction to reduce the waste stream that goes into incineration. The class is GES/HAPP 429/629 (Seminar in Geography of Health and Disease).