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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…

Albany Coun­ty, NY is home to many waste burn­ing threats. Years ago, Albany City host­ed the noto­ri­ous ANSWERS trash incin­er­a­tor, a con­tro­ver­sial case of envi­ron­men­tal racism. That incin­er­a­tor has been closed since 1995. How­ev­er, the coun­ty also hosts four sewage sludge incin­er­a­tors (two still oper­at­ing, and being phased out and replaced with anaer­o­bic digesters), and…

TAKE ACTION!   to con­tact your local offi­cials before they vote soon on where your trash goes! The Covanta Plymouth trash incinerator is Montgomery County’s #1 Air Polluter Mont­gomery Coun­ty recent­ly received an “F” grade from the Amer­i­can Lung Asso­ci­a­tion for smog in their 2019 State of the Air report. The Asth­ma and Aller­gy Foun­da­tion ranked…

Seneca Coun­ty — Town of Romu­lus in Seneca Lake was threat­ened by a plan by Cir­cu­lar enerG to build a new 2,649 ton/day trash incin­er­a­tor. Gas Free Seneca and Seneca Lake Guardian lead the fight to stop it. It was defeat­ed in May 2019 upon pas­sage of a state bill ban­ning incin­er­a­tion in the Fin­ger…

Our years of work in Bal­ti­more are pay­ing off! On March 7, 2019, the Bal­ti­more’s May­or Pugh signed into law our Bal­ti­more Clean Air Act. This is the cul­mi­na­tion of years of work to close the high­ly pol­lut­ing waste incin­er­a­tors in the city. It’s also a new phase in our ongo­ing work to tran­si­tion Bal­ti­more from…

May 9, 2019: 40 Orga­ni­za­tions call on May­or Ken­ney to Stop Burn­ing Philly’s Trash See the state­ment to the may­or, and the press release. In addi­tion to these 40 envi­ron­men­tal, com­mu­ni­ty, pub­lic health, and busi­ness orga­ni­za­tions, the Amer­i­can Sus­tain­able Busi­ness Coun­cil wrote a sep­a­rate let­ter to May­or Ken­ney mak­ing the eco­nom­ic case for end­ing incin­er­a­tion…

New Hamp­shire leg­is­la­tors will be vot­ing on Sep­tem­ber 13, 2018 on whether to over­ride the gov­er­nor’s veto of SB365, a bill that would pro­vide $68 mil­lion in sub­si­dies to sev­en of the state’s 13 largest indus­tri­al air pol­luters: the trash incin­er­a­tor in Con­cord, and six tree-burn­ing “bio­mass” incin­er­a­tors. This would raise the rates of Ever­source…

Hart­ford, Con­necti­cut is home to an aging and very pol­lut­ing trash incin­er­a­tor that the state would like to close. This state-run incin­er­a­tor serves 70 Con­necti­cut towns and is the coun­ty’s sec­ond largest air pol­luter. Shut­ting it down is a great idea, but… Con­necti­cut’s Depart­ment of Ener­gy and Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion (DEEP) only con­sid­ered three pro­pos­als to replace…

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Click to take action! In 2012, a group of ele­men­tary school stu­dents start­ed a Cray­ola: Make Your Mark! peti­tion call­ing for Cray­ola to “make sure these mark­ers don’t end up in our land­fills, incin­er­a­tors and oceans.”  The peti­tion gath­ered over 90,000 peti­tion sign­ers.  In 2013, Cray­ola launched their Col­or­Cy­cle pro­gram, but won’t admit that the…