The proposal would shift the way EPA regulates air curtain incinerators. The Trump administration is taking a different ...

Proposed rules would increase the stringency of Clean Air Act standards applicable to facilities that burn 250 tons or more of municipal solid waste per day. Among the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

A hundred metric tons of innovative fuel pellets derived entirely from biogenic and plastic waste material—which would otherwise be bound for a landfill—have been successfully produced, marking a ...

Lancaster County, Pa. – Waste-to-Energy (WTE) facilities rival landfills and have spurred a debate over which is the better choice for communities: burn or bury trash? FOX43 Reveals the energy ...

Under the Biden administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) dealt two substantial blows to efforts to turn waste plastics into useful products through advanced recycling techniques ...

For more than two decades, Twence has been a market leader in harnessing raw materials and energy from waste. The company, operating in the eastern Dutch province of Overijssel, manages biomass power ...

To keep the planet from warming more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, most countries, including the U.S., have goals to reach net zero by 2050. Net zero means that all greenhouse gas emissions ...

When I joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a staff engineer in the mid-1970s, the country was overrun with examples of poor waste management, presenting significant risks to human ...

In this century, incineration has been used widely to reduce the volume of municipal-solid waste and produce electric energy or steam, to reduce the volume and potential infectious nature of ...