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  • New York City Outsourcing Incineration

    - by Dara Hunt Con­grat­u­la­tions to Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work and oth­er orga­ni­za­tions on stop­ping a Cov­an­ta con­tract to incin­er­ate DC waste in an Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice community.  Unfor­tu­nate­ly, we have not suc­ceed­ed in stop­ping New York City’s plan, and a 20-year con­tract with Cov­an­ta Ener­gy to trans­port and burn 800,000 tons per year, or more, of New…

  • Covanta Settles for $536,211 in Lawsuit Over Biomass Ash Testing

    -Decem­ber 11, 2014, Bak­ers­field Californian Dis­trict attor­neys from eight Cal­i­for­nia coun­ties announced Thurs­day the set­tle­ment of a civ­il envi­ron­men­tal enforce­ment action against three sub­sidiaries of a New Jer­sey-based company. The set­tle­ment cov­ers Cov­an­ta Ener­gy LLC’s Kern Coun­ty bio­mass ener­gy facil­i­ty in Delano, along with oth­er com­pa­ny facil­i­ties in Men­do­ta and Oroville. Kern Coun­ty will receive about…

  • Tulsa, OK Chooses Incineration Over Composting

    - by Jar­rel Wade, August 6, 2014, Tul­sa World Trash board mem­bers vot­ed Tues­day to begin the process of seek­ing bids for con­trac­tors to pick up curb­side green waste and take it to the city’s burn plant. The recent­ly intro­duced plan from the Tul­sa Author­i­ty for Recov­ery of Ener­gy is to send green waste to the city’s burn…

  • Covanta Incineration Deal Discourages Rival Recycling Programs

    - Kath­leen McLaugh­lin, August 4, 2014, Indi­anapo­lis Busi­ness Journal The city of Indi­anapo­lis faces finan­cial penal­ties if it launch­es alter­na­tive recy­cling pro­grams, under a pend­ing deal with incin­er­a­tor oper­a­tor Covanta. The Indi­anapo­lis Board of Pub­lic Works will vote Wednes­day on an agree­ment that’s worth more than $112 mil­lion in rev­enue to Cov­an­ta, which would become the…

  • Chester, PA Residents Air Concerns over Covanta Trash Incineration Plan

    UPDATE: despite strong orga­niz­ing efforts, an out­pour­ing of com­mu­ni­ty oppo­si­tion and strong research we’ve com­piled to show how awful this plan is, city coun­cil vot­ed unan­i­mous­ly on Aug 13th to approve Cov­an­ta’s plan that allows 30 years of New York City waste to be brought by train to Chester for incin­er­a­tion.  In fact, it’ll go…