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 incinerator to replace it. This 4,000 ton/day burner would have been located in one of four communities of color in…
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 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) database. This includes emissions to the air, water, and land and is expected to cover about…
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 becomes first state to require continuous emissions monitoring at incinerators. The law requires the state’s only trash incinerator (Covanta Marion)…
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