Solid waste from the toxic train derailment in Ohio is being shipped to a nearby incinerator with a “long history” of environmental violations. Norfolk Southern, the rail company behind the 3 February ...

Major changes to air emissions standards helped drastically reduce pollution since the ‘90s, but outdated pre-regulation data ...

Hazardous waste combustors, which include incinerators, boilers, and industrial furnaces, are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Resource Conservation and Recovery ...

Incineration is widely used to reduce the volume of municipal solid waste, to reduce the potential infectious properties and volume of medical waste, and to reduce the potential toxicity and volume of ...

U.S. cities have been burning municipal solid waste since the 1880s. For the first century, it was a way to get rid of trash. Today advocates have rebranded it as an environmentally friendly energy ...