The controversial 41-year old Covanta Dade trash incinerator in Doral, Florida burned down in a massive 3-week long fire in February 2023. Ever since, Miami-Dade County has been hell-bent on building the nation’s largest waste…
– by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network October 2014 Carbon taxes are emerging as a major top-down climate solution enviros would like to see come out of Congress. Plenty of “tax carbon” signs were present in…
2:20-cv-04330-HB Lloyd v. Covanta Plymouth Renewable Energy, LLCHARVEY BARTLE, III, presidingDate filed: 09/03/2020Date of last filing: 04/01/2021 Doc.No. Dates Description 1 Filed & Entered: 09/03/2020 Complaint (IFP or Government Plaintiff) Filed & Entered: 09/09/2020…
For every 100 tons burned in an incinerator, about 30 tons of toxic ash are produced. This is evidenced by the data from various incinerators. Below is data from trash incinerators in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and…
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…
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…
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On March 29th, 2017, a rural township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, passed a local clean air law based on one we drafted for them in June 2016. It may be the first in the country…
On Monday, students from 19 Pennsylvania colleges and universities delivered a statement to Governor Tom Wolf’s Capitol office demanding no new natural gas pipelines and immediate investment in green jobs. The students are attending Pennsylvania…
We wanted to create a visualization that shows how income varies by block to facilitate community environmental justice organizing. In some neighborhoods there are major differences between blocks, and these differences are used by corporations…
We are mapping all of the existing, proposed, closed and defeated dirty energy and waste facilities in the US. We are building a network of community groups to fight the facilities and the corporations behind them.
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