by Walter Brasch
David M. Jacobson wanted a transcript of a public
hearing conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
(DEP), May 2. The public meeting was to allow persons to discuss a proposal by
National Gypsum and En-Tire Logistics to build a tire burner plant in Union
County that would burn about 100 million pounds of shredded tires each year,
and convert part of that to electricity to benefit National Gypsum, with the
rest taken to landfills. Jacobson is a member of Organizations United for the
Environment (OUE), which objects to the plant because of the amount of
pollutants that would be sent into the atmosphere.
