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  • 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…

  • Hawaiʻi Bills

    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…

  • Dirty Energy and Waste Projects in Hawai‘i

    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…

  • Toxics Release Inventory: Petition to EPA to Make Incinerators Report

    Fol­low­ing major chem­i­cal acci­dents in the 1980s, peo­ple fought for Con­gres­sion­al pas­sage of the Emer­gency Plan­ning and Com­mu­ni­ty Right-to-Know Act of 1986. This includ­ed the cre­ation of a Tox­i­cs Release Inven­to­ry (TRI) data­base man­aged by the U.S.…

  • Waste Database

    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.…

  • Florida: Trash Incineration Capital of the United States

    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…

  • Are Carbon Taxes Another False Solution?

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Octo­ber 2014 Car­bon tax­es are emerg­ing as a major top-down cli­mate solu­tion envi­ros would like to see come out of Con­gress.  Plen­ty of “tax car­bon” signs were present in the…

  • Incineration and Environmental Racism

    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…

  • Nuisance Lawsuit against Covanta Plymouth Renewable Energy trash incinerator

    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…

  • Clean Energy and Zero Waste Produce the most Jobs

    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…

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