{"id":13486,"date":"2013-03-02T09:58:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2013-03-02T09:58:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T14:58:54","slug":"fitchburg-state-incinerator-plan-aired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/03\/02\/fitchburg-state-incinerator-plan-aired\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitchburg State incinerator plan aired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Worcester Telegram and Gazette<\/em> has the story <a title=\"Worcester T &amp; G article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20130302\/NEWS\/103029921\/1116\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fitchburg State incinerator plan aired<\/strong><\/a>. If you get all the way to the bottom of the article, you will see:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the DEP&#8217;s regional office in Worcester, recycling advocates from Central Massachusetts Progressives and local officials from Central Massachusetts delivered more than 400 comments on the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Steven S. Greenberg, an engineer and one of the founders of Central Massachusetts Progressives, said the new technologies the DEP is talking about are a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m surprised at this change in policy because of this supposedly new technology,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would be nice if MassDEP would tell us what it is, because I&#8217;m an engineer and I have no clue what new technology can turn matter into something else. If they got it, they should tell us. It is not like a state or national security secret.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the state accuses us of trying to mislead the public.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve got the fantastic claims.\u00a0 They need to back up those claims with some cold, hard facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Worcester Telegram and Gazette has the story Fitchburg State incinerator plan aired. If you get all the way to the bottom of the article, you will see: At the DEP&#8217;s regional office in Worcester, recycling advocates from Central Massachusetts Progressives and local officials from Central Massachusetts delivered more than 400 comments on the proposal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13487,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions\/13487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}