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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A trash-to-energy incinerator has received the backing of the Carroll County administration, which rejected the recommendation of an environmental advisory panel. The public works department called ...

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 ...