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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)…

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 Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty of Hawaiʻi INCINERATOR AIR POLLUTION RIGHT-TO-KNOW(SB 2123 / HB 2796)  — Requires H‑POWER or any new waste incin­er­a­tor…

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 remove bio­mass and waste incin­er­a­tion as “renew­able” ener­gy sources under the state’s renew­able ener­gy mandate. Learn about Hu Honu­a’s plan…

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. For exam­ple, if you deter­mine that your trash is going to an incin­er­a­tor (many times an exam­ple of envi­ron­men­tal racism),…

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 Coun­ty incin­er­a­tor and the 2023 clo­sure of the Mia­mi-Dade incin­er­a­tor in Doral fol­low­ing a three-week fire. There are now nine…

Trash incin­er­a­tors (a.k.a. “waste to ener­gy” facil­i­ties) in the Unit­ed States are locat­ed in com­mu­ni­ties where peo­ple of col­or (espe­cial­ly Black res­i­dents) are dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly impact­ed. The largest and most pol­lut­ing trash incin­er­a­tors tend to be in com­mu­ni­ties of col­or, a major envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice issue. The trends show that race is more of a fac­tor than…

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 Sum­mons Issued 2 Filed & Entered:  09/10/2020 APPLICATION for Admis­sion Pro Hac Vice (Cred­it Card) 3 Filed & Entered:  09/10/2020 APPLICATION…

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 Mills 18 Glass Prod­uct Manufacturers 26 Plas­tic Prod­uct Manufacturers 93 Con­ven­tion­al Mate­ri­als Recov­ery Facil­i­ties (recy­cling sort­ing centers) 10 Com­post­ing 4…

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 keep the pow­er going for the Cam­den Coun­ty Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties Author­i­ty (CCMUA) sewage treat­ment plant in Cam­den so that it…

by Mike Ewall, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network [See relat­ed inter­view here.] If I were to write a doc­u­men­tary expos­ing the dis­mal state of recy­cling in the U.S., I’d be right to point out how much is not being recy­cled, how pol­lut­ing recy­cling can be, and how inad­e­quate it is to try to solve the…