This year, the General Assembly has been hearing a lot about the state budget: “billions of dollars in projected budget shortfalls in coming years” and “the largest structural gap we’ve had forecasted ...

A bill would prevent Philadelphia from signing new contracts for waste incineration, forcing the city to send all of its waste to landfills.

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 ...

Incineration is a method of treating waste which involves the combustion of the organic substances found in waste materials. The solid mass of the original waste is reduced by around 80 to 85%, while ...

In a pair of developments that appears to dim or seriously delay the possibility that Norlite will once again start burning toxic firefighting foam, the state Department of Environmental Conservation ...

When a developer abruptly dropped plans for a waste-incineration plant in North Las Vegas, a few hundred residents fighting the plans saw victory – the end of a contentious, if short-lived, proposal.

One of the main reasons our suburban and rural neighbours are pushing so hard to build garbage incinerators is "the general public's growing opposition to landfill," according to the proponents of one ...