It was impossible to know for sure if he was inside, but the East Baltimore home of Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young was the scene of a loud pre-dawn protest denouncing plans to lock in Baltimore’s use of its BRESCO trash incinerator for another decade.

Beating on a drum and chanting loudly, a group of about 20 people Saturday called on Young to drop the agreement fashioned by his law department to extend New Hampshire-based Wheelabrator Technologies’ contract to operate BRESCO, Baltimore’s biggest source of industrial air pollution.

“We’ve only got two months left. . . we’re not going to go out without a fight,” said Franca Muller Paz, a schoolteacher and 12th District City Council Green Party candidate.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE