The local press, particularly the Sunbury Daily Item and the Lewisburg Daily Journal, has covered this issue with at least three or four stories a week, and most of the details here not attributed elsewhere come from these newspapers.
2.
For a brief overview, from a former assistant administrator for solid waste management at EPA, see PonerJ., “Cutting Pollution at the Source,”The Christian Science Monitor, July, 1, 1991, p. 18.
3.
The literature on incinerators and health/safety issues is voluminous and largely two-sided. On the positive side, there is EPA, Hazardous Waste Incineration: Questions and Answers, Office of Solid Waste, April, 1988. USPCI also has widely distributed entirely positive information on incinerators. Its Information Packet on Incineration Proposal is available through USPCI, Devon, Pa., 19333. For the other side, Greenpeace, in Washington, D.C., can be contacted for an ongoing, frequently updated critique of incinerator technology and related videotapes, and the Environmental Research Foundation publishes Rachel's Hazardous Waste News, Box 73700, Washington, D.C. 20056–3700. For a typical report in the press, of the kind that is most likely to shape public opinion, see BaileyJ., “Concern Mounts Over Operating Methods of Plants that Incinerate Toxic Waste,”The Wall Street Journal, March 20, 1992, p. B-l.
4.
OUE, Environmental Advisor, October, 1991.
5.
Union County, Incinerator Review Strategy, undated (circa 1990).
6.
USPCI, Information Packet on Incineration Proposal, “TACTS ABOUT: The USPCI Project Team.”
7.
Estimate given me by Fred Wilder, Planning Director for Union County.
8.
NussbaumPaul, “In Rural Pa., A War Rages Over Incinerator,”Philadelphia Inquirer, August 10, 1991, p. B-l.
9.
OUE, Environmental Newsletter, December, 1991.
10.
Union County Medical Society, “News Release,”Evangelical Hospital, Lewisburg, Pa., November 30, 1990.
11.
MoorerL., Analysis of the Need for Additional Hazardous Waste Management Capacity for Incinerable Material Generated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Associated Agreement States, HCWC, Union County, June, 1991.
12.
The information here comes from DER, Fact Sheet, November, 1990; and from USPCI, Information Packet for Proposed Incinerator, “FACTS ABOUT: The Need for New Industrial and Hazardous Waste Treatment Capacity.”
13.
Ibid. “FACTS ABOUT, The Transportation of Hazardous Wastes.”
14.
All these testimonials are excerpted from OUE, Environmental Newsletter, February, 1992.
15.
This letter was published in the Sunbury Daily Item, February 9, 1992.
16.
Both figures are from OUE, Environmental Newsletter, November, 1991, and December, 1991, respectively.
