Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Philadelphia’s trash is currently sent to an incinerator in Chester, raising health and environmental concerns. City officials and ...

Two of three units at the county’s Resource Recovery Facility have come offline amid serious dioxin leaks. The issues have renewed pressure on long-gestating plan for landfilling and diversion ...

Funding for temporary waste hauling contract expected in Elrich’s final operating budget proposal before term ends ...

A refuse truck backs up to dump trash at the Nashua landfill earlier this month. Non-recycled waste, as well as waste generated in the state and waste from neighboring New England states such as ...

The sponsor of the proposed incineration ban pulled the bill from a vote at the last minute in January once it appeared to lack support.

When the Reworld garbage incinerator in Brooks shut down Dec. 31, Marion County didn’t just need to find a different place to send residents’ garbage. It also lost a substantial source of income. By ...

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, ...

THE NEWSROOM TO EXPLAIN WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT. DAVID. WELL, THERE’S A STRONG RIPPLE EFFECT. THE BILL ITSELF WARNS PASSAGE WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT BALTIMORE CITY’S FINANCES BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE ...

Fearing the potential of air pollution and perhaps even toxic emissions, a group of residents around the Reworld trash-to-energy plant in Bristol will call on environmental regulators to block plans ...