Hater’s Guide Installment 9/10

Baltimore’s polluting Wheelabrator trash incinerator

Environment & Sustainability: Protecting Natural Resources

The Scott administration will immediately have the issue of the downtown incinerator at hand, which Young in his final days in office attempted to extend for 10 years. The committee shows a mix of organizers for a cleaner and more just environment and stakeholders in the local energy and development industries.

Co-chairs:

Phil Croskey is the CEO and co-founder of MD Energy Advisors, which develops plans for businesses to choose where they get their energy from so that MD Energy Advisors can take a cut of the money.

Mary Grant is the Campaign Director at Food and Water Watch, which runs the campaign #WaterForAll to make water a human right, end shutoffs, and lower water costs for homes.

Promising members:

• Shashawnda Campbell, Community Organizer at the South Baltimore Community Land Trust and co-founder of “Free Your Voice,” a student-led group that successfully worked for five years to shut down the largest incinerator proposal in US history set to be built less than a mile away from their school.
• Rianna Eckel, Maryland Organizer for Food & Water Watch.
• Jennifer Kunze, Maryland Program Manager for Clean Water Action.
• Greg Sawtell, Leadership Organizer for United Workers and a Commissioner on the Baltimore Sustainability Commission.
• Dante Swinton, Program Coordinator for Divert Baltimore; Environmental Justice Researcher & Organizer for the Energy Justice Network.

Questionable members:

• Tanika Davis, Communications Manager for Exelon
• Sean D. Davis, Principal at Morris & Ritchie Associates, Inc., who assists private sector land developers and home builders throughout the United States in planning, designing, and implementing a variety of development proposals.
• Will Baker, President of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (ineffectual environmental status quo) and Director of Brown Advisory & Trust Company.