Environmental advocates hoping to shut down Baltimore’s BRESCO trash incinerator, the city’s biggest source of industrial air pollution, ran across information in an online court filing that took them by surprise:

It revealed that the city is negotiating with the incinerator’s operator as part of the legal wrangling over Baltimore’s Clean Air Act and, they fear, is offering to extend the company’s contract, which is set to expire next year.

Community leaders, lawmakers and the advocacy groups say they consider the deal, struck with Wheelabrator Technologies, to be a betrayal and an abandonment of their Zero Waste Plan effort.

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