Irwindale : Panel to Act on Incinerator

A committee of the state Energy Commission will hold a hearing Feb. 5 to decide whether to dismiss Pacific Waste Management Corp.’s application to build a trash-to-energy plant in Irwindale. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. in the gymnasium next to Irwindale City Hall.

The commission has ordered Pacific Waste to show why its application to build the proposed incinerator should not be dismissed for failure to meet air-quality requirements. The South Coast Air Quality Management District reported last week that the air-pollution offset credits filed by Pacific Waste are insufficient. Air-quality regulations require Pacific Waste to offset certain contaminants that would be released from its plant by obtaining credits that represent pollution reductions made at other locations, through such means as factory shutdowns or the installation of extra pollution-control devices.