Besides the fact those trees are ridiculously weak and break off and crush stuff all the damned time.

>Now how about a conversation about rehabilitating our dilapidated sewer and water infrastructure

Do you think that we're just... not working on our infrastructure?

I’m going to rest satisfied in knowing that those who kowtow to corporate interests and make excuses for facilities with abysmal track records didn’t get their way this time.

Yep, Baltimore gets it's influence from both Northern and Southern culture. You just have to look at the fractured picture of the state during the Civil War to understand how this came to be.

I've already addressed your comments in the other thread, you didn't respond.

You're clearly not interested in the facts, just your own narrative.

But you didn't. You are generalizing statistics for a whole city. If you look at Baltimores affluent areas you'd be like wow Baltimore is a pretty safe city. If you look at west and east Baltimore you be like holy smokes this place is a war zone. The difference being those who live in abject poverty vs high income earners.

Thank you for sharing an informed perspective and shining some light on this.

It's not, and I just gave you the data to prove it.

Obviously poverty is a factor, but it is far from the only one, as you suggest. There must be a reason that Baton Rouge has more poverty and less crime. There must be a reason San Diego has below average poverty, but above average violent crime rates. It is unavoidable that there are regional, historical, cultural, and other factors at play here. Refusing to address any of those while we wait for this country's economic system to magically become more fair is to permit more unnecessary slaughter.

Why should we trust environmental officials that are largely beholden to for-profit corporations? Are you aware of the shift in mission EPA took on in the last administration, and how many competent people left Federal government during that time?

Have you observed the state of the environment, lately? The one with massive amounts of problems, that said officials are supposed to be protecting us from?

If Back River and all aspects of the facility and its operations had an exceptional track record, do you think people would be responding this forcefully? No, they wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have made a string of calls, if I knew they were capable of even their basic mission.

I have an idea. Let’s build a massive toxic chemical containment facility on the property of everyone whose net worth is over, say, $100 million. We can build facilities sized proportionally to their net worth. We’d clean the environment up right fast, if this was the approach.

I mean you're not from the city but that's alright. You can tell people you're from Baltimore I guess. But you can definitely identify with and feel connected with the city.

BTW I live in Catonsville and yeah it's not Baltimore City. Also grew up near Westchester and nobody there says they live in NYC. I'm not sure why saying you're from the city is such an important thing to someone who isn't from the city...?

Yes, I’m not incredibly biased toward for-profit corporations with lax oversight due to working in the industry and receiving a paycheck from said corporation.

You?

If you read the statement Clean Harbors released to Baltimore City officials, they said the wastewater was initially tested and found to contain vinyl chloride levels between 0-62 parts per billion among the various railcars. For reference, the EPA set the regulatory limit for vinyl chloride in waste to be 200 ppb under the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act of 1976. It’s minimal contaminant that requires simple treatment. Sure it’s good to be skeptical, but shouldn’t we also trust the national experts to decide where is the best place to get rid of this waste? This waste has to go somewhere.

So they didn’t have a random explosion a few weeks back at the facility, and haven’t had a string of problems?

Proud ignorance, indeed.

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It has been really interesting to watch this play out. It's kinda like banning Tiktok while Facebook/Meta and Google/Alphabet chug along doing the absolute most. Hysteria from a foreign invader/scapegoat. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Kudos to the mayor for doing this.

hi there. would you like to post any relevant background or work experience?

So many other places which would fit the needs of the Wine Source, but this one is the one they are betting the farm on. Since this is Baltimore the demolition will take place.

proud ignorance. impressive.

When was that building last occupied, and were residents displaced?

I hate the idea of more parking lots, but that area can be a real clusterF. Ideally, we’d have more reliable public transportation to access all these wonderful local businesses. The 21 and 94 ain’t cutting it.

If I was an optimist I guess I'd have written my post as "Cum smells like the beautiful Bradford blossoms of springtime 🥰🥰"

i was telling someone this yesterday.....they probably had things set up from the get go for all the crap from sparrows point...

The Clean Harbors Baltimore plant is not on the property. It’s on the other side of the city. They just receive wastewater by truck or rail, treat it, and discharge the cleaned water into the sewer. It just ultimately ends up at Back River just like all city sewage does.

Racism. I got a negative one.

Someone else posted this WP article about its history, super interesting. Sounds like the one you're talking about!