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…

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…

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…

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.…

NEW REPORTS (Dec 2024): Flori­da burns more trash than any state in the Unit­ed States. Flori­da used to have the great­est num­ber of trash incin­er­a­tors in any US state until the 2021 clo­sure of the Bay…

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…

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 Manufacturers 25 Paper…

Cam­den for Clean Air formed in May 2020 to stop plans to keep the Cov­an­ta Cam­den trash incin­er­a­tor alive by hav­ing it serve as the pow­er source for a pro­posed micro­grid. The pro­posed micro­grid would…