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  • Maryland Dumps Incineration

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network VICTORY!!  For a sec­ond year in a row, pro-incin­er­a­tor leg­is­la­tion in Mary­land was defeat­ed.  This stealthy leg­is­la­tion was writ­ten by Cov­an­ta (the nation’s largest trash incin­er­a­tion com­pa­ny) and would put Mary­land on the path to burn­ing near­ly all of the waste that isn’t recycled.  The leg­is­la­tion takes the Renew­able Port­fo­lio…

  • Florida Trash Incinerator Proposal Bites the Dust

    (Source: Lau­rie K. Bland­ford and Antho­ny West­bury, TC Palm) A trash incin­er­a­tor pro­pos­al for St. Lucie, Flori­da has fall­en through fol­low­ing a unan­i­mous deci­sion by the St. Lucie Coun­ty Com­mis­sion­ers to ter­mi­nate the con­tract with Geor­gia-based Geo­plas­ma, cit­ing eco­nom­ic con­cerns. The 24 megawatt incin­er­a­tor would’ve incin­er­at­ed 600 tons of trash per day using a tech­nol­o­gy called plas­ma arc, which turns…