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 ...

Reworld has notified the state it is no longer in negotiations with Houston-based Peaker Energy to sell the 40-year-old ...

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 Covanta waste-to-energy plant on Fink Road near Crows Landing is pictured in 2016 Stanislaus County’s Covanta plant, the last remaining garbage incinerator in California, will cease operations in ...

Aberdeen's £150m incinerator has closed for the second time in six months, with an interim operator put in place. No exact timescale has been given for when the facility - which is used by Aberdeen, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...