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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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