Black and Hispanic communities are often overburdened with air pollution and emissions from trash incinerators, chemical plants, and oil refineries that harm their health. MIAMI — When leaders of ...

Proposal that would impact the largest U.S. incinerator, which is in Chester, drew dozens of public comments at Thursday's ...

Campaigners protest against a planned waste incinerator at Portland Port, in Dorset.

Spokane officials traveled to the state Capitol Tuesday in search of grace and to ask lawmakers to allow the city’s ...

Dirty, smelly built-up land with tractors moving across acres of trash and vultures flying above: That’s the picture of a landfill. For decades, adding landfill space has been left out of the public ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Ever since 1989, when the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) first opened, people have protested against it. On Thursday that fight continued. The Minneapolis City Council proposed a ...

The city of Minneapolis has taken one more step toward shutting down the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) trash incinerator. Mayor Jacob Frey signed a resolution calling for it to be closed by ...

For nearly four decades, most of Marion County’s garbage has gone to an incinerator in Brooks to be burned. That ends in a few weeks. Reworld, the New Jersey-based company that now owns the ...

When leaders of Miami-Dade, 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 ...

Too often land inhabited by Black and Hispanic people is unfairly overburdened with air pollution and other emissions from trash incinerators, chemical plants, and oil refineries that harm their ...