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 ...

A new study of pollutants in moss near the Reworld Marion garbage incinerator north of Salem in Brooks shows higher concentrations in samples taken closer to the facility and identified “signature” ...

Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area. When leaders of Florida’s most populous county met in September to pick a ...

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 ...

Campaigners protest against a planned waste incinerator at Portland Port, in Dorset.

Lee County officials say building a new incinerator is just an idea, and one that hasn't taken root. But some local environmental groups have heard enough. There has been some county commission ...

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

The city of Minneapolis has taken one more step toward shutting down the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) trash incinerator. Mayor Jacob Frey signed a resolution calling for it to be closed by ...

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 ...

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 ...