By KATHLEEN E. CAREY | [email protected] | delcotimes.com Environmental advocates say an LNG terminal project is moving forward along the Delaware River and that its impact will have quite a reach in Delaware County and beyond. A webinar on Wednesday night hosted by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, CRCQL, shared information the groups gathered over the past year […]

Incineration companies like Reworld like to greenwash and rebrand themselves as environmentally friendly when they are anything but. So we are going to separate fact from fiction. Myth: Waste incineration is a source of renewable energy. Fact: Municipal waste is non-renewable, consisting of discarded materials such as paper, plastic and glass that are derived from finite natural resources such as […]

On Saturday, June 13th, CHOICES visited Urban Roots Farm, a 26 acre farm located in Newtown Square. This farm is committed to growing healthy, delicious, and chemical-free produce. CHOICES members learned about what it takes to run a sustainable farm, produce nutritious food, and how to be a good steward of the land. CHOICES is our environmental justice youth group […]

Lansdowne Borough & Nether Providence Township Pass “NO LNG” Resolution June 4, 2026 – Media, PA Lansdowne Borough Council and Nether Providence Commissioners passed “No LNG in Delco” resolutions in April 2026, joining Media Borough and Swarthmore Borough which passed similar resolutions earlier this year.  The resolution states their opposition to the construction or siting of any LNG export terminal […]

 Open Audio Article Player May 27, 2026 By Drew AmorosiSPIRIT correspondent A group of Chester protesters greeted Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker in front of a scheduled town hall meeting in the city’s Kingsessing neighborhood last Thursday night, May 21. The group, calling on the city to stop sending its trash to neighboring Chester for incineration, was prevented from entering Victory Christian […]

Chester residents say trash from Philadelphia burned at a local facility is polluting the air and impacting health in their community. By Matt DeLucia • Published May 21, 2026 • Updated on May 21, 2026 at 11:27 pm People gathered outside Mayor Cherelle Parker’s town hall meeting in Philadelphia’s Kingsessing neighborhood Thursday night to protest trash being sent from the city to a facility in Delaware County. Some […]

By Dawn Timmeney Published  May 21, 2026 10:44 PM EDT News FOX 29 Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA – A group from Chester gathered outside Mayor Cherelle Parker’s town hall budget meeting in Southwest Philadelphia, demanding the city stop burning its trash in Chester. Chester residents protest Philadelphia’s trash incineration What we know: A small but determined crowd protested outside the town hall, calling for Philadelphia […]

Yesterday, we held a protest outside of Mayor Parker’s Town Hall meeting at the Victory Christian Center, hoping that she would recognize the importance of supporting the Stop Trashing Our Air Act (Bill #250768). Mayor Parker has been actively obstructing this bill and we know that the incinerator owner has been actively lobbying city officials to put a stop to it. The bill is […]

VIEW ARTICLE ONLINE by Bernard Brown May 1, 2026 In 2022, a pipe failed at the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Freeport, Texas, causing an explosion and fire. The conflagration took place entirely within the facility, built on a barrier island along the Gulf of Mexico. The nearest residential area sits more than a mile away from the plant, […]

May 2, 2026 – Chester, PA. –   On Saturday May 2, residents from the City of Chester, Delaware County and the region joined forces with Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL) to host their 5th annual Environmental Justice (EJ) March from Chester City Hall to Covanta, now Reworld, trash incinerator. The event is to generate awareness of the issues […]