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Dismantling of the Chester-Upland Public School System “where segregation is admittedly a fact but not a policy.”
MUST READ!!! A for-profit charter school is trying to privatize the whole system after gutting the district financially over the years. Chester’s education and health are not for sale! This is too much for one city to bear. Quotes from article: “If there was not money in this,” one advocate told me, “none of these carpetbaggers would be here. There’s […]
PA Bill passed that gives the green light to “plastic-to-energy” facilities
Last month, Gov. Wolf signed a new law in PA laying out regulation for “advanced recycling” also known as chemical recycling. Yet another move in the industry playbook that puts profits over the health of people. The bill gives the green light to a new polluting “plastic to energy” facilities that won’t be regulated as a solid waste facility, but […]
“United Shades of America” docuseries sheds light on lead pollution and Covanta incinerator
Check out the “Toxic America” episode of CNN’s docuseries “United Shades of America” hosted by Kamau Bell. The final episode of Season 4 aired in 2019 examines the effects of industrial waste pollution in Chester, Delaware County, and lead poisoning in neighboring Philadelphia. Featuring our own Zulene Mayfield. https://www.phillyvoice.com/cnn-united-shades-america-lead-poisoning-pollution-philly-chester-kamau-bell/ https://www.cnn.com/shows/united-shades-of-america
Chester plant slapped with $750K fine for years of air quality violations- July 30, 2019
Source: https://www.inquirer.com/health/chester-pq-corporation-pollution-dep-fine-20190730.html The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined PQ Corp., a global manufacturer of materials and chemicals, $750,000 for air quality and other violations at a large Chester facility it operates. PQ, based in Malvern, owns a 173,000-square-foot plant on West Front Street, where the DEP says emissions exceeded allowances for nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide at various […]
Moment of reckoning: US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports- Feb. 21, 2019
Source: https://www.inquirer.com/health/chester-pq-corporation-pollution-dep-fine-20190730.html The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined PQ Corp., a global manufacturer of materials and chemicals, $750,000 for air quality and other violations at a large Chester facility it operates. PQ, based in Malvern, owns a 173,000-square-foot plant on West Front Street, where the DEP says emissions exceeded allowances for nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide at various times […]
Why Philly’s trash is Chester’s air pollution – WHYY
whyy.org/episodes/phillys-trash-is-chesters-pollution/ Check out this recording of The Why feature aired by WHYY on June 17, 2019. About one-third of Philadelphia’s garbage goes to a facility in Chester, Pa. where the waste is burned and converted into energy. But that incinerator also pollutes the air Chester residents breathe and researchers say it’s one of the dirtiest in the U.S. Catalina Jaramillo, […]
Too Much Pollution For One Place
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/too-much-pollution/ Article published by PBS on August 23, 2017 on how emissions from waste treatment facilities and power plants contribute to a slow-motion public health disaster in Chester, PA. By Will Sullivan.
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL, pronounced “circle”) is a local grassroots community organization that has been leading the fight for environmental justice in Chester since 1992, under the leadership of Chester resident, Zulene Mayfield.
