One of the most heavily lobbied issues to hit City Hall in a long time is set for a showdown tonight, with a City Council vote scheduled on a bill that would require Baltimore’s trash incinerator and medical waste incinerator to reduce their emissions of harmful pollutants.
The last time partisans worked a bill this hard in City Hall?
When Martin O’Malley wanted the council’s blessing for casino gambling, said the bill’s lead sponsor Councilman Ed Reisinger, who today called the New Hampshire-based company that runs the trash incinerator “evil” and said it has been “telling lies.”
In recent weeks, Wheelabrator Baltimore has unleashed a torrent of full-page ads, social media messaging, robo-calls and printed mailers to defeat the measure.
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