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In a 2021 letter, Strand states that CEP provides the scholarships through a “community benefit agreement” with Covanta amounting to as much as $80,000/year (eight scholarships awarded each year to Chester High School students, providing each with $2,500/year for four years).

$10,000 for Chester Environmental PartnershipĬovanta’s letter proposed that Strand would be part of the process to identify who would get the scholarships and the funding to church and other groups.

$5,000 toward church youth groups, and/or town landscaping projects, depending on the need for funds in these particular areas.

$5,000 toward the Chester Little League.

$10,000 for college level scholarships (for multiple students).

Each page is initialed by Strand (HWS) and the Covanta rep, Gene Bonner (EVB). In 2006, Strand signed an agreement with Covanta for the trash incinerator company to pay $30,000 a year. Attendees are typically corporate polluters and governmental representatives with average Chester residents not invited or present. Meetings would normally be held at Strand’s Faith Temple church at 10am on Wednesdays if not hosted at the offices of one of the larger polluters in the city. Their first meeting was run by PA Department of Environmental Protection and U.S.

In 2005, Strand formed the Chester Environmental Partnership. The money wasn’t fully paid back until 2000.

CRCQL had to put a lien on Strand’s property to require Strand to pay the money back.Īfter meeting about it, we came to an agreement that Strand would pay the money back in installments by December 1996. Strand claimed (with no documentation) that the money had been spent to enhance property he owns adjacent to his church, claiming that 2500 West Second Street is the “Proposed site of New Office of Chester Residents.” CRCQL never discussed or agreed to use Strand’s property as the group’s office. CRCQL’s treasurer did not know about it.Īfter confronting Strand, he tendered his letter of resignation to the group, as well as an itemized financial breakdown of expenses. CRCQL only learned of this when Zulene Mayfield was speaking in Swarthmore and a couple mentioned their contribution. Strand did not inform the group and was not the group’s treasurer. CRCQL had a fully functioning board with bylaws on how the group is to make decisions.

In 1994, a $5,500 donation to CRCQL was handed to Horace Strand. In 2005, Strand formed the Chester Environmental Partnership, funded by the city’s largest air polluter and #1 environmental criminal: the Covanta Delaware Valley trash incinerator, and has been Covanta’s advocate ever since. However, Strand resigned from CRCQL on after being caught trying to embezzle a $5,500 donation to the group. Strand touts his early involvement as a leader in the Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL), the grassroots environmental justice organization founded in 1991 in the City of Chester. Horace Strand, a reverend of Chester’s Faith Temple Holy Church, positions himself as an environmental justice leader in the City of Chester, Pennsylvania, but has been a pawn of the city’s biggest air polluter for years. Wright led CEP from behind the scenes while serving as Environmental Advocate for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Southeast Regional Office, and now serves as CEP’s Executive Director. Horace Strand sitting next to Alice Wright, the brains behind Strand’s Chester Environmental Partnership.