The question of what to do with Montgomery County's trash is complicated, but when all factors are weighed, writes Lauren ...

State environmental regulators are asking for public comment on a proposed new solid waste permit for Covanta Marion, the garbage incinerator in Brooks. The facility burns most of Marion County’s ...

As Miami-Dade County tries to figure out where a new trash incinerator should go, several cities in southwest Broward stood united against the new facility being built less than a mile from Broward’s ...

BALTIMORE. A NEW COMPLAINT TO THE EPA ALLEGES THAT POLLUTION FROM THE BRISCOE PLANT CONTRIBUTES TO UNEQUAL HEALTH RISKS TO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE NEARBY NEIGHBORHOODS. WOODS. WHEN YOU KNOW BETTER, ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A prior version of this story omitted the first reference to Dylan Darling. He is a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. State regulators likely ...

January marks International Zero Waste Month, a growing global observance that calls for systemic action from governments, industries, and all sectors to ...

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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 ...