CCAN had an integral role in negotiating the nation’s strongest coal ash landfill permit for a site in Baltimore city.
Millennium Inorganic Chemicals, Inc. is a chemical manufacturing company based in Baltimore city. Millennium operates a non-hazardous waste landfill on-site for its own waste and waste from third party sources that generate similar waste.
Constellation Energy submitted a solid waste permit application to the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) to dispose of coal combustion waste generated by Constellation Energy’s Brandon Shores, H.A. Wagner, and Crane coal-fired power plants at the Millenium site. MDE announced announced its intent to approve this request in fall 2010.
CCAN and its Baltimore partners at Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) fought the issuance of this permit from day one. Unfortunately, there was no stopping the permit. So instead, the groups negotiated the terms of the permit with Constellation Energy.
After intense negotiations, CCAN and EIP secured the strongest new coal ash landfill permit in the United States. This will ensure that the community is protected from pollution for decades to come and the permit will be used as a model for others across the United States.
For more information, contact Staff Attorney Diana Dascalu-Joffe at diana@chesapeakeclimate.org.
