Black and Hispanic communities are often overburdened with air pollution and emissions from trash incinerators, chemical plants, and oil refineries that harm their health. MIAMI — When leaders of ...

Campaigners protest against a planned waste incinerator at Portland Port, in Dorset.

Advocates continue to pressure officials to close or cut off waste shipments to incinerators in Minneapolis and the ...

Mayor Wayne M. Messam said the city is fighting the proposal legislatively and legally as Miami-Dade weighs possible sites.

Around 500 people rallied in Portland, Dorset over incinerator plans which will pump pollution into working class communities ...

A newly-formed protest group held their first meeting this week in opposition to a planned incinerator plant that will burn medical waste from hospitals.

Since 1985, there has been a silent serial killer plaguing the neighborhoods of South Baltimore. Its weapon of choice: air pollutants that poison the city from the inside out. Thousands of people are ...

For nearly four decades, most of Marion County’s garbage has gone to an incinerator in Brooks to be burned. That ends in a few weeks. Reworld, the New Jersey-based company that now owns the ...

Sheboygan's increasing garbage and outdated 1915 incinerator prompted city officials to explore waste management solutions in 1962. A new incinerator was built in 1965 after debate over costs and the ...

When leaders of Miami-Dade, Florida’s most populous county, met in September to pick a site for what could become the nation’s largest trash incinerator, so many people went to the government center ...

Too often land inhabited by Black and Hispanic people is unfairly overburdened with air pollution and other emissions from trash incinerators, chemical plants, and oil refineries that harm their ...