When leaders of Miami-Dade, Florida’s most populous county, met in September to pick a site for what could become the nation’s largest trash incinerator, so many people went to the government center ...
Some Maryland leaders and sustainability advocates are pushing for legislation that would remove trash incineration from the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) and use the funds for ...
In a recent commentary, Mary Urban, WIN Waste Innovation’s senior director of communications and community, states that “waste-to-energy facilities do not adversely impact human health” based on a ...
A bill that would end Maryland’s practice of allocating renewable energy subsidies to trash incinerators is stalled in committee but not dead yet, despite missing the “crossover” deadline that would ...
The question of what to do with Montgomery County's trash is complicated, but when all factors are weighed, writes Lauren ...
Ten Million Corals Are in the Path of a Federal Dredging Project in Florida Health Care Providers Are Dropping a Common Anesthesia Drug That’s Also a Climate Super Pollutant Now in its 25th Year, a ...
The city is struggling with rising energy costs, and it projects a new mass burn combustion facility could add 20 to 30 ...
Reworld has notified the state it is no longer in negotiations with Houston-based Peaker Energy to sell the 40-year-old ...
A newly-formed protest group held their first meeting this week in opposition to a planned incinerator plant that will burn ...
Stanislaus County’s Covanta plant, the last remaining garbage incinerator in California, will cease operations in December, marking the end of an era for waste management in the state. Jody Hayes, the ...
Black and Hispanic communities are often overburdened with air pollution and emissions from trash incinerators, chemical plants, and oil refineries that harm their health. MIAMI — When leaders of ...
Too often land inhabited by Black and Hispanic people is unfairly overburdened with air pollution and other emissions from trash incinerators, chemical plants, and oil refineries that harm their ...