The smokestack of the Wheelabrator incinerator, a waste recycling facility that converts trash into energy. Photo by Joe Ryan/Capital News Service. The years-long effort in Maryland to cut ...

I need to address several misleading statements made by the author of a recent letter to the editor, “Trash incinerators actually helpful to climate cause” (Feb. 3). To start, the best alternative is ...

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 ...

Washington lawmakers are on the verge of an agreement that will give Spokane's Waste-to-Energy facility a longer timeline to ...

Within a year of moving to Cherry Hill, a majority Black neighborhood on Baltimore’s southern tip, Shanae Thomas noticed her asthma—a health problem she was born with—had gradually worsened. A 31-year ...

Advocates and environmental groups largely welcomed the Environmental Protection Agency’s Jan. 11 proposal to impose stricter pollution limits on large trash incinerators. But they caution that the ...

The Parkes Shire Council has formally objected to controversial plans to dispose of some of Sydney's red-bin rubbish on the edge of its biggest town.