Delaware
Current Campaigns
Restricting Garbage Incineration
Clean Water Action has worked with allies in Delaware to enact some of the strongest laws in the world against garbage incineration. No incinerator can be built within three miles of a residential property. This effectively keeps these polluting burners out of Delaware.
People fought for these laws because of well-known experience in Delaware and other places with such burners, and because any new one would pump out millions of pounds per year of health-damaging air pollutants.
Senator John Still, the Senate Minority Leader, has introduced Senate Bill 283, which states that the prohibitions against incinerators "...shall not apply to Kent or Sussex Counties." Weakening Delaware's prohibitions on garbage incineration doesn't make sense in Kent or Sussex Counties, or anywhere in Delaware. Please write to your representatives to oppose SB 283.
