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Clean Air, Good Jobs & Justice for All!
Join the People of Detroit on Saturday, June 26 for a Rally, March & Mass Demonstration to End the World’s Biggest Waste Incinerator
Rally at 9 am in front of Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward
BE A VOICE: Should the U.S. Burn or Bury Its Trash?
The NY Times has followed up Elisabeth Rosenthal's pro-incinerator industry article, with a public debate on their online Opinion Page: Should the U.S. Burn or Bury Its Trash? Why is Europe ahead of the U.S. in embracing clean incinerators that turn garbage into energy? Have your say. Now!
GAIA Raises Serious Concerns regarding New York Times Article on Incineration
Ananda Lee Tan, GAIA's North American Program Coordinator raises serious concern on the recently published article in New York Times entitled “Europe Finds Clean Energy in Trash, but U.S. Lags”
Incinerator project burns up Pa. capital's cash
by Marc Levy, Associated Press
April 11th, 2010
by Marc Levy, Associated Press
April 11th, 2010
Harrisburg leaders thought they could transform their aging, debt-laden trash incinerator into a clean, efficient moneymaker. But costs exploded and massive debt payments due this year on the incinerator threaten to drag the city into bankruptcy.
The Story of Bottled Water
How Manufactured Demand pushes what we don’t need and destroys what we need most
Groups across North America hail Massachusetts policy shift from waste incineration to waste reduction
December 15th, 2009
December 15th, 2009
Environmental and public interest groups across the continent applauded the announcement that a new Massachusetts waste plan will retain and strengthen the moratorium on increased incineration of municipal solid waste, and introduce new measures to reduce waste dramatically.
Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None
by LESLIE KAUFMAN, The New York Times
October 19th, 2009
by LESLIE KAUFMAN, The New York Times
October 19th, 2009
Though born of idealism, the zero-waste philosophy is now propelled by sobering realities, like the growing difficulty of securing permits for new landfills and an awareness that organic decay in landfills releases methane that helps warm the earth’s atmosphere.
New Campaign Applauds Recycling in the Senate Climate Bill
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Recycling Works! campaign (RW), a coalition of labor, environmental and community organizations applauds Senator Carper as well as Boxer and Kerry for recognizing recycling as a key climate strategy. RW calls the inclusion of state recycling programs in the new Senate climate bill an important step towards rebuilding the economy, and looks forward to working with the Senate on details of these programs.
Pro-incinerator expert testified for tobacco companies
by By Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun
October 4th, 2009
by By Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun
October 4th, 2009
A pro-incineration expert brought in by Metro Vancouver to speak at a series of public forums once testified as a tobacco industry witness that there was insufficient evidence to link smoking to lung cancer.
E.P.A. Report Suggests Waste Reduction and Recycling Reduces CO2 Emissions
by John Collins Rudolph, The New York Times
September 21st, 2009
by John Collins Rudolph, The New York Times
September 21st, 2009
A new report from the United States Environmental Protection Agency suggests that way Americans procure, produce, deliver and dispose of goods and services — what the agency refers to as “materials and land management” — accounts for 42 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Victory for foes of dump
by Gail Swainson, The Star.com
August 26th, 2009
by Gail Swainson, The Star.com
August 26th, 2009
Ontario activists celebrate as Site 41 put on hold for a year and vow to fight on to make shutdown permanent.
Recycling trash to electricity idea has residents nervous
by Lolis Eric Elie, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune
August 2nd, 2009
by Lolis Eric Elie, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune
August 2nd, 2009
A New Orleans company's plan to turn garbage into electricity has attracted a host of critics -- local and national -- who claim the proposed technology is untested, expensive and hazardous to the environment and public health.
Environmentalists decry waste incineration
by Peter B. Lord, The Providence Journal
June 18th, 2009
by Peter B. Lord, The Providence Journal
June 18th, 2009
Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts joined leaders of several environmental groups in speaking out Thursday afternoon against legislation that would lift the state's 15-year ban against burning garbage.
Report: Trash-to-energy plants pose environmental hazard
by Sam Hemingway, Free Press Staff Writer, Burlington Free Press.com
by Sam Hemingway, Free Press Staff Writer, Burlington Free Press.com
Eight national environmental groups are releasing a report today that, in Vermont, may mark the opening salvo in a debate over plans by an electric utility and a major trash hauler to someday build several trash-to-energy plants in the state.
New Report: Despite Green Claims, Incinerator Industry Just Blowing Smoke
Press release about An Industry Blowing Smoke: problems with gasification, pyrolysis and plasma incinerators exposed.
New Report: An Industry Blowing Smoke
10 reasons why gasification, pyrolysis & plasma incineration are not “green solutions”
Recycling Businesses, Community Advocates Decry Addition of Toxic Technologies to Climate Bill
Groups say no to special interest handouts for garbage burners
A Red Flag on Green Energy Plan
In the name of green energy, Massachusetts is going to cut down its forests and burn them.
ACT/USA: Keep incinerators and other waste technologies out of the U.S. Renewable Electricity Standard (RES)
The incinerator industry is pushing hard to have municipal solid waste incineration added to the renewable standard in the Waxman-Markey climate bill and in the Senate's renewable energy standard.















