Covanta Delaware Valley

What Would Losing Covanta Mean for City of Chester, Delaware County?

The waste-to-energy facility in the city of Chester, owned by New Jersey-based Covanta Holding Corporation, has been the center of a...

Covanta renews incinerator contract with Chester. City’s receiver says it missed out on $10M

An 2017 agreement means the cash-strapped city will get less per ton of trash brought in by a big customer — the county Solid Waste...

Closing Chester’s Covanta Plant Would Take $8 Million Revenue Bite

The Covanta trash-to-steam plant in Chester is a political hot potato that helped to propel novice candidate Stefan Roots onto the ballot...

For 30 years, she has fought a waste-to-energy plant in Chester City: ‘We don’t have a choice’

Zulene Mayfield, who raised a family in a two-story rowhouse in that neighborhood at Front and Thurlow Streets off the Delaware River, has been fighting for 30...