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Huge Waste Burner Plan Defeated in FL?
The controversial 41-year old Covanta Dade trash incinerator in Doral, Florida burned down in a massive 3-week long fire in February 2023. Ever since, Miami-Dade County has been hell-bent on building the nation’s largest waste…
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EPA Takes Steps to Require Waste Incinerators to Report Toxic Output
VICTORY! On 12/20/2024, EPA granted our petition filed in 2023 by Energy Justice Network and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility to require waste incinerators to start annually reporting their toxic chemicals releases to the agency’s…
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Victory for Monitoring Toxic Incinerator Pollution!
In Oregon, Senate Bill 488, a precedent-setting bill to continuously monitor toxic emissions from waste incineration, passed into law with the governor’s signature on August 4, 2023. See the latest news coverage in Waste Dive (8/3/2023): Oregon…
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Hawaiʻi Bills
The following four bills in the 2024 session of the Hawaiʻi State Legislature are supported by Energy Justice Network , Hawaiʻi Clean Power Task Force ,Kokua na Aina , and the Environmental Caucus of the…
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Dirty Energy and Waste Projects in Hawai‘i
In Hawai‘i, Energy Justice Network is supporting our member group,Kokua Na Aina , in educating and organizing residents to stop biomass and waste burning schemes. We’re also supporting the Hawai‘i Clean Power Task Force to…
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Waste Database
The searchable database below allows users to determine which facilities their municipal solid waste (MSW) ends up in. Knowing this crucial information empowers residents to be informed about the impact of the trash they generate.…
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Florida: Trash Incineration Capital of the U.S.
NEW REPORTS (Jan 2025): These reports, supported by the City of Miramar, were released by Mayor Messam on 1/25/2025 with this letter and appendices. Florida burns more trash than any state in the United States.…
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Are Carbon Taxes Another False Solution?
– by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network October 2014 Carbon taxes are emerging as a major top-down climate solution enviros would like to see come out of Congress. Plenty of “tax carbon” signs were present in…
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Nuisance Lawsuit against Covanta Plymouth Renewable Energy trash incinerator
2:20-cv-04330-HB Lloyd v. Covanta Plymouth Renewable Energy, LLCHARVEY BARTLE, III, presidingDate filed: 09/03/2020Date of last filing: 04/01/2021 Doc.No. Dates Description 1 Filed & Entered: 09/03/2020 Complaint (IFP or Government Plaintiff) Filed & Entered: 09/09/2020…
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Clean Energy and Zero Waste Produce the most Jobs
Job Creation: Reuse and Recycling vs. Disposal Type of Operation Jobs per 10,000 tons ofdiscarded material per year Product Reuse Computer Reuse 296 Textile Reclamation 85 Misc. Durables Reuse 62 Wooden Pallet Repair 28 Recycling-based…
EJ Communities Map
We are mapping all of the existing, proposed, closed and defeated dirty energy and waste facilities in the US. We are building a network of community groups to fight the facilities and the corporations behind them.
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