A local fight spilled onto the stage of a high-profile climate conference in Miami Beach on Wednesday as activists disrupted a panel on climate emissions over concerns about Miami-Dade’s plan to build a new trash incineration plant. The focus of their ire was Tequila Smith, executive vice president and chief sustainability officer at Covanta. The […]
At the end of January, one of New York State’s dirtiest trash incinerators owned by WIN Waste marked 40 years of operation and trash burning. No one who lives near it, however, is celebrating. The local community of Peekskill, New York, which lives in the shadow of Westchester County’s largest industrial polluter, isn’t celebrating four […]
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – A St. Louis County councilman says taxpayers are getting burned on a proposed $900 million incinerator for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. Councilman Ernie Trakas says there are a lot of unknowns about this deal. “Considering that three years ago, it was one third of that. Yeah, I think […]