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Jennifer Kunze
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Posting about #Baltimore politics, environment, infrastructure, housing, bikes, & now #LongCovid.
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jkunze.bsky.social
They are used for energy production, but they pollute more than coal plants! It's the worst option for managing waste.

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Waste incinerators undermine clean energy goals
A national clean energy standard, modeled upon existing state-level Renewable Portfolio Standards, has been proposed to decarbonize the U.S. electric grid. Most such state policies include municipal s...
journals.plos.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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jackjenkins.me
UPDATE: Kilmar’s lawyer announces he has been taken into ICE custody.
August 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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cleanwatermd.bsky.social
This week's bad HoCo Board of Appeals decision contradicts last month's Hearing Examiner ruling supporting the community's appeal against the "chemical recycling" pilot, essentially ending the appeal before it begins.

Catch up with last month's news here:
W.R. Grace moves forward with chemical recycling - but community pushes back
In Howard County, the Cedar Creek community’s fight to prevent W.R. Grace and Co. from constructing a pilot chemical recycling project 230 feet from neighbors’ homes has seen two major developments.
cleanwater.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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cleanwatermd.bsky.social
Read the new community-led research showing $100 million worth of health damages every year from waste incineration in #Baltimore here:
Health damages and disparities from municipal and medical waste incineration in Baltimore, USA
Background Waste incineration in Baltimore, USA, involves two major facilities: a municipal solid waste incinerator (WIN Waste) and the nation’s largest medical waste incinerator (Curtis Bay Medical W...
www.medrxiv.org
July 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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cleanwatermd.bsky.social
It's time for #Baltimore City AND County to invest in #ZeroWaste alternatives & close the trash incinerator once and for all.

Watch @wmar2news.bsky.social's coverage of Friday's rally here:
Study: Baltimore incinerators causing nearly $100 million in health damages annually
New research suggests that two Baltimore incinerators are causing nearly $100 million in health damages every year, according to a recent study.
www.wmar2news.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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scanthepolice.bsky.social
Did BPD deploy surveillance drones at the 6/20 protest, violating their own policies and scrubbing it from public flight logs?
July 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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scanthepolice.bsky.social
In 2023, BPD purchased drones from DiCarlo Precision Instruments, Inc.

Members of the public at the protest on 6/20 reported to us that the drone they observed surveilling the protest and returning to BPD matched the drones available from DiCarlo.
www.dicarlotech.com/products/uav
Alt: Screenshot of the 9/20/2023 Board of Estimates agenda, item “SB-23-13113 - Sole Source - Contract Number 08000 Drones and a GPS Mapping Package.” The amount is $ 38,152.45. The description reads “The BCPD has a requirement to get additional Drones with GPS Mapping Package compatible with existing Drones and Mapping package. DiCarlo Precision Instruments is the sole source vendor of Drones and a GPS Mapping Package meeting the requirements.” Screenshot of website linked in post, with pictures of six drones available from DiCarlo Precision Instrument Inc.
July 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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scanthepolice.bsky.social
Drone flight logs are posted on BPD’s “New Technology Initiatives” page. Despite reports by members of the public seeing a drone fly low over the protest, then return to BPD, there is no drone flight on 6/20 in Upton in the logs.
www.baltimorepolice.org/resources-an...
ALT: flight logs for June 2025 BPD drone use arranged in a chart. Two entries for 6/20/2025 are highlighted: SWAT High Risk Search Warrants for Norfolk Ave and Edison Highway, both in completely different areas of the city than the protest in Upton.
July 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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scanthepolice.bsky.social
BPD using a drone for a reason other than those listed in the previous post is prohibited.
www.baltimorepolice.org/transparency...
Alt: Screenshot of linked document. “Prohibited Actions. 17. Units shall not use their sUASs for reasons other than those approved by BPD. 18. Units shall not use their unit’s sUASs to other unauthorized BPD units or aid with the use of sUAS’s during missions that are outside the scope of their approved unit’s duties. 19. BPD units that are not approved for the use of sUASs shall be prohibited from borrowing, inviting, or testing sUASs from other entities or individuals, including approved BPD units, during law enforcement activity.
July 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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scanthepolice.bsky.social
Per BPD policy, units must go through an approval process to begin using drones. Only two units are currently authorized to use drones - SWAT and the Crime Scene Unit - and only for specific purposes. Protest surveillance isn’t one of them.
public.powerdms.com/BALTIMOREMD/...
Alt: Screenshot of page 1 of linked document, headlined “Baltimore Police Department Approved Units for Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS)” and listing circumstances when SWAT may use drones. Alt: Screenshot of page 2 of linked document, listing circumstances when the Crime Scene Unit may use drones.
July 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM