The Baltimore City Council told Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young to end negotiations with Wheelabrator Technologies, operator of the BRESCO trash incinerator.

Unanimously passing a resolution at tonight’s meeting, the Council also called on the mayor to defend the Baltimore Clean Air Act against a legal challenge by Wheelabrator in the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Councilman Ed Reisinger, who sponsored the resolution and the Clean Air Act, said negotiating with Wheelabrator does not “make any financial, health or environmental sense.”

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