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Councilmember challenges administration on ties to Chester incinerator as waste‑contract RFP proceeds
Summary
Councilmember Gauthier pressed Clean & Green Director Carlsa Williams about whether the city will renew a contract that sends waste to Chester’s incinerator; Williams said the administration is evaluating options via an RFP and will consider environmental impacts across disposal methods while exploring alternatives such as anaerobic digestion.
Councilmember Gauthier raised a pointed environmental‑justice challenge to the Parker administration, asking whether the city would continue a seven‑year contract with waste‑to‑energy operators that she said "pollutes Chester and other Black and brown communities." She urged the city to refuse any contract that would continue pollution in neighboring municipalities.
"If we go again with Reworld Covanta, which not only pollutes Chester, but other Black and brown…
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