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 ...

For nearly four decades, most of Marion County’s garbage has gone to an incinerator in Brooks to be burned. That ends in a few weeks. Reworld, the New Jersey-based company that now owns the ...

Proposal that would impact the largest U.S. incinerator, which is in Chester, drew dozens of public comments at Thursday's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dirty, smelly built-up land with tractors moving across acres of trash and vultures flying above: That’s the picture of a landfill. For decades, adding landfill space has been left out of the public ...

The provincial government has already given the company a green light to seek a permit, despite hundreds of residents requesting a full environmental assessment. A proper assessment could have allowed ...

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 ...