The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published on August 22nd an Interim Final Rule/Request for Comment providing for the temporary use of incineration units subject to commercial ...

Medical waste incinerators, including one in suburban Maywood, face more stringent limits on toxic air pollution under a new federal rule hammered out after a decade-long legal battle. Most hospitals ...

American hospitals are churning out 3.6 million tons of medical waste each year, and between 20 and 30 percent of it is plastic-test tubes, petri dishes, tubing, syringes and packaging, items ...

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Westlake Vinyls is proposing to build two new hazardous waste incinerators at its plastics complex in Geismar that the company says would promote efficiency and circular recycling of energy and ...