POUGHKEEPSIE — It matters how a community handles its waste. The stuff we throw away doesn’t disappear: It rots in landfills, adding greenhouse gasses to the environment; it gets recycled and finds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Residents and activists gathered in front of the Stephen P. Clark building in Miami Saturday to protest against the proposal to rebuild the solid waste incinerator in Doral. The protest sought to stop ...

Community groups have filed a federal civil rights complaint against Baltimore City’s Department of Public Works, arguing that it has failed to create an effective plan to wean the city off of the air ...