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. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA).

Since 1988, for hun­dreds of tox­ic chem­i­cals, we’ve had data report­ed by chem­i­cal plants, oil refiner­ies, and many oth­er indus­tries dis­clos­ing the amounts of each emit­ted into our air, waters, land, and even the amounts trans­ferred to oth­er sites. Reporters, pub­lic offi­cials, researchers, com­mu­ni­ty groups and oth­ers have used this data for years to draw atten­tion to tox­ic polluters.

How­ev­er, one of the most tox­ic indus­tries has always been exempt from this report­ing require­ment. Waste incin­er­a­tors are often among the top indus­tri­al air pol­luters in their coun­ties, but maps and data based on TRI, like ProP­ub­li­ca’s ToxMap have gap­ing holes in their map where incin­er­a­tor pol­lu­tion should be show­ing up.

This peti­tion would require EPA to make the fol­low­ing types of waste incin­er­a­tors start report­ing their tox­ic releas­es, includ­ing tox­ic chem­i­cals in their ash that ends up in land­fills and oth­er uses.

• 68 Large and Small Munic­i­pal Waste Com­bus­tors (trash incinerators)
• 15–30 Hos­pi­tal, Med­ical, and Infec­tious Waste Incinerators
• 60–70 Sewage Sludge Incinerators
• 148 Com­mer­cial and Indus­tri­al Sol­id Waste Incinerators
• 63 Oth­er Sol­id Waste Incinerators
• 40 Pyrol­y­sis and Gasi­fi­ca­tion Units

Read the full 47-page for­mal peti­tion. This peti­tion is being filed by Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work and the Pub­lic Employ­ees for Envi­ron­men­tal Respon­si­bil­i­ty. It fol­lows through on one of sev­er­al demands in a 274-group let­ter sent in Octo­ber 2022 to the Biden White House Coun­cil on Envi­ron­men­tal Qual­i­ty rais­ing con­cerns about pro-incin­er­a­tion bias­es at EPA.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 3, 2023

Con­tact:

Mike Ewall
Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work
215–436-9511
mike@energyjustice.net

Tim White­house
Pub­lic Employ­ees for Envi­ron­men­tal Respon­si­bil­i­ty
202–247-0299
twhitehouse@peer.org

WASTE INCINERATORS’ TOXIC OUTPUT SHOULD BE REPORTED
Incin­er­a­tor Chem­i­cal Releas­es Not Includ­ed in EPA Tox­i­cs Release Inventory

Wash­ing­ton, DC — The U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA) should final­ly start requir­ing waste incin­er­a­tors to report their tox­ic chem­i­cal emis­sions to the agency’s Tox­i­cs Release Inven­to­ry (TRI), accord­ing to a rule­mak­ing peti­tion filed today by Pub­lic Employ­ees for Envi­ron­men­tal Respon­si­bil­i­ty (PEER) and the Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work, with back­ing from more than 300 oth­er envi­ron­men­tal and pub­lic health orga­ni­za­tions. Tox­ic emis­sions from waste incin­er­a­tors are cur­rent­ly not cat­a­logued in the TRI even though they are quite substantial.

The TRI rule­mak­ing peti­tion would cov­er incin­er­a­tors that burn munic­i­pal sol­id waste (house­hold and com­mer­cial trash), indus­tri­al waste, med­ical waste, and sewage sludge, as well as pyrol­y­sis and gasi­fi­ca­tion units, alto­geth­er approx­i­mate­ly 400 facil­i­ties nation­wide. The peti­tion requires a for­mal response and address­es one of sev­er­al demands that 274 groups made of the White House in a let­ter rais­ing con­cerns about EPA’s his­to­ry of favor­ing waste incin­er­a­tion. That Octo­ber 2022 let­ter was nev­er answered or acknowledged.

Tox­ic heavy met­als, such as lead and mer­cury burned in incin­er­a­tors are not destroyed but end up dis­charged in the air and in the result­ing ash. Incin­er­a­tion also does not destroy many tox­ic chem­i­cals, such as per- and poly­flu­o­roalkyl sub­stances (PFAS), which also end up in the air and ash, ulti­mate­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ing lands and waters. In still oth­er cas­es, such as burn­ing vinyl chlo­ride (used in PVC plas­tic), incin­er­a­tion cre­ates even more tox­ic vari­ants, such as diox­ins and furans, the most tox­ic class of chem­i­cals known to science.

The peti­tion also includes con­tro­ver­sial pyrol­y­sis and gasi­fi­ca­tion units that are pro­mot­ed as “chem­i­cal recy­cling” or “advanced recy­cling,” yet are clas­si­fied by EPA as types of incin­er­a­tors. These facil­i­ties heat wastes, usu­al­ly plas­tics, in attempts to cre­ate a fuel prod­uct. While tout­ed as a way to cre­ate clean ener­gy from plas­tics, one of these new EPA-approved fuels car­ries an astro­nom­i­cal can­cer risk of 1 in every 4 per­sons exposed, near­ly 250,000 times the lev­el EPA con­sid­ers safe.

“This peti­tion would close a big data gap about our expo­sure to harm­ful chem­i­cals,” stat­ed PEER Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Tim White­house, a for­mer EPA enforce­ment attor­ney, not­ing that report­ing to the TRI would pro­vide the first dis­clo­sure of tox­ic chem­i­cals in incin­er­a­tor ash, which usu­al­ly ends up in land­fills. “Incin­er­a­tor ash is full of tox­ic chem­i­cals, and when used in place of soil to cov­er land­fills at night, can blow into communities.”

The Tox­i­cs Release Inven­to­ry cur­rent­ly con­tains detailed infor­ma­tion on 770 chem­i­cals in 33 cat­e­gories man­aged by more than 23,000 indus­tries. The TRI was cre­at­ed as part of the Emer­gency Plan­ning and Com­mu­ni­ty Right to Know Act, enact­ed back in 1986.

EPA has the legal author­i­ty to add incin­er­a­tors to the TRI, but has not done so despite clear envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice impli­ca­tions, as trash, sewage sludge, and med­ical waste incin­er­a­tors dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly impact peo­ple of color.

“Waste incin­er­a­tors are typ­i­cal­ly among the largest indus­tri­al air pol­luters in their cities and coun­ties, yet this info is invis­i­ble in this pop­u­lar dis­clo­sure tool,” added Mike Ewall, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work, a nation­al orga­ni­za­tion sup­port­ing com­mu­ni­ties to pre­vent and close waste incin­er­a­tors and oth­er pol­lut­ing indus­tries. “Our research has shown that this unnec­es­sary indus­try is worse than land­fill­ing, is dirt­i­er than coal burn­ing, and dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly impacts peo­ple of color.”

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Read the peti­tion or view the sig­na­to­ries at www.energyjusticenetwork.org/tri

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313 Orga­ni­za­tions signed on in support:

1. 1000 Grand­moth­ers for Future Gen­er­a­tions (CA)
2. 350 Fair­fax (VA)
3. 350 Hawaii (HI)
4. 350 New Hamp­shire (NH)
5. 350 Salem (OR)
6. Abell and Charles Vil­lage Mutu­al Aid (MD)
7. Action Col­lab­o­ra­tive for the Trans­form­ing Spir­it Now (ACTS Now) (NH)
8. Afro-Veg­an Soci­ety (MD)
9. All Our Ener­gy (NY)
10. All Togeth­er Now PA (PA)
11. Alliance for A Clean Envi­ron­ment (ACE) (PA)
12. Alliance for a Green Econ­o­my (NY)
13. Alliance for Health and the Envi­ron­ment (MA)
14. Alliance for Region­al Coop­er­a­tion (DC)
15. Alliance for Sus­tain­able Communities–Lehigh Val­ley (NJ)
16. Alliance for the Wild Rock­ies (MT)
17. Alliance of Nurs­es for Healthy Envi­ron­ments (ANHE) (MD)
18. ANC 5D02 (DC)
19. Ash­ford Clean Ener­gy Task Force (CT)
20. Assateague Coastal Trust (MD)
21. Athens County’s Future Action Net­work (OH)
22. Bal­a­boste (NY)
23. Bal­ti­more Com­post Col­lec­tive Pro­gram (MD)
24. Ban Michi­gan Frack­ing (MI)
25. Bay Area — Sys­tem Change, Not Cli­mate Change (CA)
26. Beaver Coun­ty Mar­cel­lus Aware­ness Com­mu­ni­ty (PA)
27. Beaver­dam Creek Water­shed Watch Group (MD)
28. Berks Gas Truth (PA)
29. Bet­ter Path Coali­tion (PA)
30. Between the Waters (OH)
31. Beyond Extreme Ener­gy (MD)
32. Beyond Plas­tics Alta­mont (NY)
33. Beyond Tox­i­cs (OR)
34. Big Island Reef Keep­ers Hui (HI)
35. Bio­fu­el­watch (CA)
36. Black Rock Pol­li­na­tor Part­ners (CT)
37. Blacrai (FL)
38. Bor­ough of Media, Penn­syl­va­nia Envi­ron­men­tal Advi­so­ry Coun­cil (PA)
39. Breathe Free Detroit (MI)
40. Bridge­port Envi­ron­men­tal Advo­cates (CT)
41. Bris­tol Res­i­dents for Clean Air (CT)
42. Brookhaven Land­fill Action and Reme­di­a­tion Group (BLARG) (NY)
43. Brown Girls Think, LLC (DC)
44. Buck­eye Envi­ron­men­tal Net­work (OH)
45. Bucks Envi­ron­men­tal Action (PA)
46. BYO — CT (CT)
47. BYO — U.S. Reduces (NY)
48. Cal­i­for­nia Com­mu­ni­ties Against Tox­i­cs (CA)
49. Cal­i­for­nia Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice Coal­i­ti­ton (CA)
50. Cal­i­for­ni­ans Against Waste (CA)
51. Cam­den for Clean Air (NJ)
52. Cas­ca­dia Cli­mate Action Now (WA)
53. Cen­ter for a Sus­tain­able Coast (GA)
54. Cen­ter for Envi­ron­men­tal Health (NC)
55. Cen­ter for Envi­ron­men­tal Trans­for­ma­tion (NJ)
56. Cham­ber of Sus­tain­able Com­merce (HI)
57. Chil­dren’s Envi­ron­men­tal Health Net­work (Nation­al)
58. Cit­i­zens Action Coali­tion of Indi­ana (IN)
59. Cit­i­zen’s Action for a Safe Envi­ron­ment (CASE) (PA)
60. Cit­i­zens Against Ruin­ing the Envi­ron­ment (IL)
61. Cit­i­zens’ Cli­mate Lob­by — Chester Coun­ty (PA)
62. Cit­i­zens for a Healthy Jes­sup (PA)
63. Clean Air Action Net­work of Glens Falls (NY)
64. Clean Air Bal­ti­more Coali­tion (MD)
65. Clean Air Coali­tion of Greater Rave­na-Coey­mans (NY)
66. Clean Air Now Coali­tion (OR)
67. Clean the Pacif­ic (HI)
68. Clean Up the Riv­er Envi­ron­ment (CURE) (MN)
69. Clean Water Action — Penn­syl­va­nia (PA)
70. Cli­mate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Coali­tion (MD)
71. Cli­mate Pro­tec­tors Hawaii (HI)
72. Cli­mate Real­i­ty Project — South­ern CT Chap­ter (CT)
73. Cli­mate Real­i­ty Project — Susque­han­na Val­ley PA Chap­ter (PA)
74. Coali­tion for Addi­tion With­out Sub­trac­tion (CAWS White Plains) (NY)
75. Coali­tion of Com­mu­ni­ty Orga­ni­za­tions (TX)
76. Coali­tion to Pro­tect New York (NY)
77. Con­cerned Health Pro­fes­sion­als of Penn­syl­va­nia (PA)
78. Con­cerned Res­i­dents of Oxford (NY)
79. Con­gre­ga­tion Beth Israel of Media (PA)
80. Con­necti­cut Coali­tion for Eco­nom­ic and Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice (CT)
81. Con­necti­cut Zero Waste Coali­tion (CT)
82. Con­ser­va­tion Law Foun­da­tion, Inc. (MA)
83. Cort­landt Peek­skill Anti-Racism Col­lab­o­ra­tive (NY)
84. Cov­an­ta Ply­mouth Infor­ma­tion and Aware­ness Group (PA)
85. Dar­by Creek Val­ley Asso­ci­a­tion (PA)
86. DC Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice Coali­tion (DC)
87. DC Envi­ron­men­tal Net­work (DC)
88. DC State­hood Green Par­ty (DC)
89. Del Amo Action Com­mit­tee (CA)
90. Del­co Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice (Chester, PA)
91. Doc­tors for Camp Clo­sure (MD)
92. Don’t Waste Ari­zona (AZ)
93. Down­winders At Risk (TX)
94. Dri­ve The Future EV — Zero Emis­sion Musi­cians (PA)
95. Earth Ethics, Inc. (FL)
96. Earth Quak­er Action Team (PA)
97. Earth­keep­er Health Resources (NY)
98. East Coven­try Advo­ca­cy (PA)
99. East Michi­gan Envi­ron­men­tal Action Coun­cil (MI)
100. ECHO Sys­tems (PA)
101. Eco-Integri­ty Alliance (CO)
102. Ecol­o­gy Cen­ter (MI)
103. Ecol­o­gy Par­ty of Flori­da (FL)
104. Elmi­rans and Friends Against Frack­ing (NY)
105. Empow­er DC (DC)
106. Ener­gy Jus­tice Law and Pol­i­cy Cen­ter (NY)
107. Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work (Nation­al)
108. Envi­ron­men­tal Cau­cus of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty of Hawai‘i (HI)
109. Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice Min­istry, Cedar Lane Uni­tar­i­an Uni­ver­sal­ist Con­gre­ga­tion (MD)
110. Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice Task Force — Tuc­son (AZ)
111. Every Moth­er is a Work­ing Moth­er Net­work (PA)
112. Extinc­tion Rebel­lion (XR) NPMH (NY)
113. Faith Alliance for Cli­mate Solu­tions (VA)
114. Fence­line Watch (TX)
115. First Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church of Mont­clair (NJ)
116. Flori­da Right to Clean Water (FL)
117. Food & Jus­tice w/ Bren­da Sanders (MD)
118. Fos­sil Free Tomp­kins (NY)
119. Frack­busters New York (NY)
120. Frac­Track­er Alliance (PA)
121. Fresh­Wa­ter Account­abil­i­ty Project (OH)
122. Friends of Swann Creek (MD)
123. Friends of the Bit­ter­root (MT)
124. Friends of the Wild Swan (MT)
125. GAIA (Inter­na­tion­al)
126. Glob­al Jus­tice Ecol­o­gy Project (NY)
127. Glob­al Jus­tice for Ani­mals and the Envi­ron­ment (NY)
128. Glob­al Women’s Strike – U.S. (PA)
129. Go Green Ocean City (MD)
130. Grass­roots Envi­ron­men­tal Edu­ca­tion (NY)
131. Green Par­ty of Alleghe­ny Coun­ty (PA)
132. Green Par­ty of Nas­sau Coun­ty (NY)
133. Green Par­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia (PA)
134. Greenacres-Wood­ward Civic Asso­ci­a­tion (MI)
135. Green­ac­tion for Health and Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice (CA)
136. Green­Lati­nos (CA)
137. Green­peace USA (Nation­al)
138. GRID2.0 Work­ing Group (DC)
139. Grow Safe: Non-Tox­ic Mis­soula (MT)
140. Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund (HI)
141. Hawaii Alliance for Pro­gres­sive Action (HI)
142. Hawai’i Clean Pow­er Task Force (HI)
143. Hawaii Reef and Ocean Coali­tion (HI)
144. Healthy Gulf (LA)
145. Help Uplift Lead­ers with Integri­ty (HULI) PAC (HI)
146. Homes 4 All — Newark (NJ)
147. Hud­son Riv­er Sloop Clear­wa­ter (NY)
148. Hum­boldt Uni­tar­i­an Uni­ver­sal­ist Fel­low­ship Cli­mate Action Cam­paign (CA)
149. Indi­an Point Safe Ener­gy Coali­tion (NY)
150. Inland Ocean Coali­tion (CO)
151. Insti­tute for Local Self-Reliance (Nation­al)
152. Iowa Green Par­ty (IA)
153. Jesus Peo­ple Against Pol­lu­tion (MS)
154. Just Tran­si­tion Alliance (CA)
155. Just Zero (Nation­al)
156. Keep It Wild PA (PA)
157. Kokua Na Aina (HI)
158. League of Women Vot­ers Penn­syl­va­nia (PA)
159. League of Women Vot­ers of the Unit­ed States (Nation­al)
160. Life of the Land (HI)
161. Locust Point Com­mu­ni­ty Gar­den (MD)
162. Long Island Pro­gres­sive Coali­tion (NY)
163. Lynn Neigh­bor to Neigh­bor (MA)
164. Madi­son Coun­ty Clean Pow­er Coali­tion (GA)
165. Maine Solar Ener­gy Asso­ci­a­tion (ME)
166. Mar­cus Hook Area Neigh­bors for Pub­lic Health (PA)
167. Mary­land Con­ser­va­tion Coun­cil (MD)
168. Mary­land Ener­gy Advo­cates Coali­tion (MD)
169. Mary­land Lati­nos Unidos (MD)
170. Mary­land Leg­isla­tive Coali­tion (MD)
171. Media Alliance (NY)
172. Mer­chantville Green Team (NJ)
173. Michi­gan Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice Coali­tion (MI)
174. Mid­loth­i­an Breathe (TX)
175. Mid-Mis­souri Peace­works (MO)
176. Min­neso­ta Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice Table (MN)
177. Mon­tana Envi­ron­men­tal Infor­ma­tion Cen­ter (MT)
178. Mont­gomery Coun­try­side Alliance (MD)
179. Moth­ers Out Front — Dutchess (NY)
180. Moth­ers Out Front — North­ern Westch­ester (NY)
181. Moun­tain Water­shed Asso­ci­a­tion (PA)
182. NAACP — Chester Branch (PA)
183. NAACP — Dis­trict of Colum­bia Chap­ter (DC)
184. NAACP — Mary­land State Con­fer­ence (MD)
185. NAACP — Windham/Willimantic Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice Com­mit­tee (CT)
186. Nas­sau Hik­ing & Out­door Club (NY)
187. Neigh­bors Against the Gas Plants (PA)
188. New York Cli­mate Action Group (NY)
189. No More Dirty Pow­er in Killing­ly (CT)
190. North Car­o­line Cli­mate Jus­tice Col­lec­tive (NC)
191. North Coun­try Earth Action (NY)
192. North Coun­ty Cli­mate Change Alliance (CA)
193. Nor­walk Zero Waste Coali­tion (CT)
194. Noth­ing Left to Waste (PA)
195. Nuclear Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Ser­vice (IL)
196. Nuclear Infor­ma­tion and Resource Ser­vice (MD)
197. One Penn­syl­va­nia (PA)
198. Our Rev­o­lu­tion Hawaii (HI)
199. Para­ble of the Sow­er Inten­tion­al Com­mu­ni­ty Coop­er­a­tive (CA)
200. Par­ents Against SSFL (CA)
201. Part­ner­ship for Pol­i­cy Integri­ty (MA)
202. Part­ner­ship for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty in Delaware (DE)
203. Pay­day Men’s Net­work — U.S. (PA)
204. Peace and Well­ness Col­lec­tive (MD)
205. Peace, Jus­tice, Sus­tain­abil­i­ty NOW! (PA)
206. Peck­ham Action Group (NY)
207. Peo­ple for a Healthy Envi­ron­ment (NY)
208. Peo­ple for Com­mu­ni­ty Recov­ery (IL)
209. Phi Beta Sig­ma Fra­ter­ni­ty, Inc. (Nation­al)
210. Philly DSA (PA)
211. Philly Neigh­bor­hood Net­works (PA)
212. Physi­cians for Social Respon­si­bil­i­ty — Penn­syl­va­nia (PA)
213. Post-land­fill Action Net­work (PA)
214. Pro­gres­sives for Cli­mate (CO)
215. Pro­tect All Chil­dren’s Envi­ron­ment (NC)
216. PT Part­ners (CT)
217. Pub­lic Employ­ees for Envi­ron­men­tal Respon­si­bil­i­ty (Nation­al)
218. Pueblo Action Alliance (NM)
219. Quak­ing Spir­it Peace Sanc­tu­ary (NY)
220. Quan­tum Insti­tute (NY)
221. Race to Zero Waste (CA)
222. Rachel Car­son Coun­cil (MD)
223. Recy­cle Ann Arbor (MI)
224. Recy­cle Hawaii (HI)
225. Recy­cling Advo­cates of Mid­dle Ten­nessee (TN)
226. Refab­ric (MD)
227. Repow­ered (MN)
228. Resist Spec­tra (NY)
229. Rusty & The Crew (MN)
230. Safe Ener­gy Rights Group (NY)
231. Saugus Action Vol­un­teers for the Envi­ron­ment (SAVE) (MA)
232. Save Our Illi­nois Land (IL)
233. Save Our Streams (PA)
234. Save the Pine Bush (NY)
235. Sequoia Forest­Keep­er (CA)
236. SHARKas­tics (HI)
237. Sier­ra Club (Nation­al)
238. Sier­ra Club — Broward Group (FL)
239. Sier­ra Club — Greater Bal­ti­more Group (MD)
240. Sier­ra Club — Long Island Group (NY)
241. Sier­ra Club — Lox­a­hatch­ee Group (FL)
242. Sier­ra Club — Penn­syl­va­nia Chap­ter, Zero Waste Team (PA)
243. Sis­ters of Char­i­ty of New York (NY)
244. Sis­ters of St. Fran­cis of Philadel­phia (PA)
245. Solar­ize Albany (NY)
246. Sole­bury Envi­ron­men­tal Action Club (PA)
247. Sol­i­dar­i­ty Com­mit­tee, Cap­i­tal Dis­trict (NY)
248. Sound Resource Man­age­ment Group (CO)
249. South Bronx Unite (NY)
250. South Coun­try Peace Group (NY)
251. St. John Chrysos­tom RC Church Jus­tice and Peace Com­mit­tee (PA)
252. Sug­ar­loaf Cit­i­zens Asso­ci­a­tion (MD)
253. Sun­flower Alliance (CA)
254. Sun­rise Lewis­burg (PA)
255. Sun­rise Move­ment Penn­syl­va­nia (PA)
256. Surfrid­er Foun­da­tion (Nation­al)
257. Surfrid­er Foun­da­tion — Hawai’i Region (HI)
258. Sus­tain­able Coast­lines Hawaii (HI)
259. Sus­tain­able Koha­la (HI)
260. Sus­tain­able Tuc­son (AZ)
261. Syra­cuse Cul­tur­al Work­ers (NY)
262. Teach­ing Artist Insti­tute (MD)
263. Ter­ra Advo­cati (TX)
264. Texas Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice Advo­ca­cy Ser­vices (TX)
265. The Envi­ro Show (MA)
266. The Last Beach Cleanup (CA)
267. The Ulti­mate Good Orga­ni­za­tion (PA)
268. The Vasile Group (CT)
269. The Wein­berg Nature Cen­ter (NY)
270. Thrive Bal­ti­more (MD)
271. Tikkun Olam Chau­rah (PA)
272. Tox­ic Free Philly (PA)
273. Tracey Stephens Inte­ri­or Design (NJ)
274. Tran­si­tion Town Media (PA)
275. Tri-Val­ley CAREs (Com­mu­ni­ties Against a Radioac­tive Envi­ron­ment) (CA)
276. Tur­tle Island Restora­tion Net­work (TX)
277. Under­stand­ing. Devo­tion. Take Action. Jus­tice. (UDTJ) (PA)
278. Uni­tar­i­an Uni­ver­sal­ist Fel­low­ship at Stony Brook, Racial Con­cerns Com­mit­tee (NY)
279. Uni­tar­i­an Uni­ver­sal­ist Fel­low­ship of Hidal­go Coun­ty, Texas (TX)
280. Uni­tar­i­an Uni­ver­sal­ists for a Just Eco­nom­ic Com­mu­ni­ty (IA)
281. Unite North Metro Den­ver (CO)
282. Unit­ed For Clean Ener­gy (NY)
283. Unit­ed Par­ents Against Lead (VA)
284. Upper Bur­rell Cit­i­zens Against Mar­cel­lus Pol­lu­tion (PA)
285. Upper Westch­ester Dawah Com­mit­tee (NY)
286. Urban Ore, Inc. (CA)
287. Val­ley Improve­ment Projects (CA)
288. Val­ley Watch, Inc. (IN)
289. Vir­ginia Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice Col­lab­o­ra­tive (VA)
290. Vote Cli­mate (MN)
291. Watch­dogs of South­east­ern Penn­syl­va­nia (WaSEPA) (PA)
292. Water­spir­it (NJ)
293. Wauke­sha Coun­ty Envi­ron­men­tal Action League (WI)
294. We are the Peo­ple, Inc. (PA)
295. We Want Green, Too (MI)
296. Weavers Way Coop­er­a­tive Asso­ci­a­tion (PA)
297. WESPAC Foun­da­tion, Inc. (NY)
298. West Berke­ley Alliance for Clean Air and Safe Jobs (CA)
299. West End Revi­tal­iza­tion Asso­ci­a­tion (NC)
300. Westch­ester Alliance for Sus­tain­able Solu­tions (NY)
301. West­more­land Mar­cel­lus Cit­i­zens’ Group (PA)
302. West­port CEDC (MD)
303. Women of Col­or in the Glob­al Wom­en’s Strike (PA)
304. Wom­xn From The Moun­tain (CO)
305. Work­ing on Waste (NH)
306. Zero Hour (UT)
307. Zero Waste Cap­i­tal Dis­trict (NY)
308. Zero Waste Hawai’i Island (HI)
309. Zero Waste Itha­ca (NY)
310. Zero Waste Kaua’i (HI)
311. Zero Waste Mont­gomery Coun­ty (MD)
312. Zero Waste O’ahu (HI)
313. Zero Waste USA (CA)