Coverage of Saturday’s Environmental Justice march
https://whyy.org/articles/chester-residents-rally-against-covanta-trash-incinerator-company/
Yesterday we joined Chester Environmental Justice to march for clean air for the 2nd Annual Environmental Justice Day Caravan and March.
CLEAN AIR IS A HUMAN RIGHT! Thank you to all who came out to stand for Chester residents and residents of neighboring communities!
Chester, Pennsylvania has long been known as one of the nation’s worst cases of environmental racism. This small city just southwest of Philadelphia hosts the nation’s largest trash incinerator, a sewage sludge incinerator, a paper mill burning waste coal and petroleum coke, numerous chemical plants, toxic waste sites, and much more. Immediately surrounding it in the neighboring waterfront boroughs of Eddystone, Trainer, and Marcus Hook are additional major polluters: primarily oil refineries and gas-fired power plants