With trash generation climbing and disposal options dwindling, several U.S. jurisdictions are turning to new waste-to-energy incinerators.

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 ...

The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the U.S. held a forum on Monday, November 13 about the perils of garbage and waste incineration. The workshop discussed ways to combat incinerators, both ...

For more than a decade, Maryland Sen. Karen Lewis Young tried to get the state to pull the plug on public subsidies for trash incineration, a form of energy that’s considered dirtier than coal. None ...

MIAMI — When leaders of Florida’s most populous county met in September to pick a site for what could become the nation’s largest trash incinerator, so many people went to the government center to ...

Duke professor Daniel Richter thinks about dirt. A lot actually. Earlier this year, Richter’s soil-centered tendencies threw him into the muddy arena of Durham politics. Testing conducted by Richter ...

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 ...

Woonsocket residents are fed up with the sludge incinerator, leading the city to plan its closure. Shutting it down could ...

Miramar residents and members of environmental groups show support for a speaker urging Miami-Dade commissioners not to build an incinerator at the Airport West site near Miramar. The meeting took ...