As Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young negotiates a settlement with Wheelabrator Technologies that could extend its contract to operate the BRESCO incinerator, Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke is seeking to stop the city from entering into a contract for any type of waste incineration.

At the first meeting of the City Council in over a month, Clarke is scheduled to introduce this evening a bill that she and co-sponsors call the “Ban the Burn at Every Turn Act.”

It would accomplish the goal of a stringent air emissions law that the Council passed earlier this year, but which is now under a legal challenge by Wheelabrator and others.

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