The Sacramento City Council is leaning towards ending their relationship with incinerator company U.S. Science and Technology. They are beginning to understand that the claims that the company has made are baseless and dangerous for the community.

Santa Cruz County’s controversial plan to build a plasma arc incinerator for treating garbage is going down to defeat after the company, adaptiveARC, was unable to provide documentation of their claims about the alleged safety of their technology and proposed facility.

State officials in Massachusetts are considering removing the long-standing statewide incinerator moratorium. For the sake of the global environment and the health and well being of Massachusetts residents, take action today to urge state officials to preserve the statewide moratorium on waste incineration.

This Wall Street Journal article discusses many of the problems with the current CDM credit trading system. Under this credit trading scheme, practices like capturing landfill-released methane gas are awarded credits which can be traded to other polluters. Landfill owners that were capturing methane before this policy was instituted are being rewarded for doing nothing new, and now trading their credits for a profit, allowing others to pollute more with their credits. This policy effectively raises the cap on carbon emissions and allows for even more pollution.