The sponsor of the proposed incineration ban pulled the bill from a vote at the last minute in January once it appeared to lack support.

With trash generation climbing and disposal options dwindling, several U.S. jurisdictions are turning to new waste-to-energy incinerators.

Duke professor Daniel Richter thinks about dirt. A lot actually. Earlier this year, Richter’s soil-centered tendencies threw him into the muddy arena of Durham politics. Testing conducted by Richter ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Aging hazardous waste incineration plants in Ohio that have been barred from expansion for three decades could start growing again under a new policy Republican Gov. Mike DeWine ...

In this century, incineration has been used widely to reduce the volume of municipal-solid waste and produce electric energy or steam, to reduce the volume and potential infectious nature of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Woonsocket residents are fed up with the sludge incinerator, leading the city to plan its closure. Shutting it down could ...

A new study sponsored by a state waste-to-energy group and spurred by Minnesota’s PFAS Blueprint shows the facilities are receiving PFAS but expelling relatively little.

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...