Advocates and environmental groups largely welcomed the Environmental Protection Agency’s Jan. 11 proposal to impose stricter pollution limits on large trash incinerators. But they caution that the ...

Warren — Warren's waste incinerator that processes sludge from the city's wastewater treatment plant needs emergency repairs after suffering serious damage earlier this week. Warren city council ...

"These incinerators are burning garbage and releasing poisons that cause cancer." ...

Reworld Marion will stop taking waste from Marion County at the end of the year, the company has told county commissioners. The 38-year-old municipal waste incinerator, formerly called Covanta Marion, ...

TUSCUMBIA — Colbert County Household Garbage Department Manager Jake Flannigan is seeking additional information about an incinerator system that would help the county reduce the amount of wood waste ...

A facility for incinerating miscellaneous solid low-level waste has begun operating at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The incinerator will be used for disposing of items ...

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 ...

Steam billows from a tall stack near the power block facility at the MIRA trash-to-energy facility in Hartford’s South Meadows. Credit: Cloe Poisson The last several months have exposed the ...

Incineration is widely used to reduce the volume of municipal solid waste, to reduce the potential infectious properties and volume of medical waste, and to reduce the potential toxicity and volume of ...

Burning trash has a long history in the United States, and municipal solid waste incinerators have sparked resistance in many places. As an environmental justice scholar who works directly with ...

Garbage incineration plant. Waste incinerator plant with smoking smokestack. The problem of environmental pollution by factories. Increasing waste incineration capacity in European Union’s countries ...

For years, Maryland climate activists have fought to repeal a law passed in 2011 meant to encourage the construction of new trash incinerators in Frederick County and South Baltimore, which were never ...