On Monday, Watford will receive the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her successful grassroots effort to stall the construction of what would have been the nation’s largest trash incinerator in the Curtis Bay neighborhood of southern Baltimore.
In 2012, the then-17-year-old Watson first learned that the developer Energy Answers had secured legal approval to build a solid-waste-to-energy power plant—PR speak for a trash incinerator—one mile from her high school. “When the incinerator was proposed, it was proposed as the solution to both the energy crisis and the waste crisis,” Watford told Sierra in a recent interview. “It sounded like a wonderful solution, but it's not—it was a false alternative.” http://sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-2-march-april/green-life/baltimore-student-leader-receives-goldman-environmental-prize
Article courtesy of Sierraclub.org by Catherine Schuknecht
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