After the City Council unanimously passed a bill that would tighten emission limits on the Wheelabrator trash incinerator, the heavily-lobbied measure moves to the desk of Mayor Catherine Pugh.
But with Pugh refusing to say whether she will sign it – and after she made an 11th hour plea to the bill’s sponsor to delay it – the spotlight has shifted from City Hall’s fourth-floor Council chambers to the executive branch on the second floor.
“We want to make sure that the mayor knows that we would like our Valentine gift to be that we have clean air and that we’d like her to give us that as a present,” said Mike Ewall, of Energy Justice Network, after last night’s passage of Bill 18-0306.
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