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  • Huge Waste Burner Plan Defeated in FL?

    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…

  • EPA Takes Steps to Require Waste Incinerators to Report Toxic Output

    VICTORY! On 12/20/2024, EPA grant­ed our peti­tion filed in 2023 by Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work and Pub­lic Employ­ees for Envi­ron­men­tal Respon­si­bil­i­ty to require waste incin­er­a­tors to start annu­al­ly report­ing their tox­ic chem­i­cals releas­es to the agen­cy’s…

  • Hawaiʻi Bills

    The fol­low­ing four bills in the 2024 ses­sion of the Hawaiʻi State Leg­is­la­ture are sup­port­ed by Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work , Hawaiʻi Clean Pow­er Task Force ‚Kokua na Aina , and the Envi­ron­men­tal Cau­cus of the…

  • Dirty Energy and Waste Projects in Hawai‘i

    In Hawai‘i, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work is sup­port­ing our mem­ber group,Kokua Na Aina , in edu­cat­ing and orga­niz­ing res­i­dents to stop bio­mass and waste burn­ing schemes. We’re also sup­port­ing the Hawai‘i Clean Pow­er Task Force to…

  • Waste Database

    The search­able data­base below allows users to deter­mine which facil­i­ties their munic­i­pal sol­id waste (MSW) ends up in. Know­ing this cru­cial infor­ma­tion empow­ers res­i­dents to be informed about the impact of the trash they generate.…

  • Florida: Trash Incineration Capital of the U.S.

    NEW REPORTS (Jan 2025): These reports, sup­port­ed by the City of Mira­mar, were released by May­or Mes­sam on 1/25/2025 with this let­ter and appen­dices. Flori­da burns more trash than any state in the Unit­ed States. Flori­da…

  • Are Carbon Taxes Another False Solution?

    - 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 the…

  • Nuisance Lawsuit against Covanta Plymouth Renewable Energy trash incinerator

    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…

  • Clean Energy and Zero Waste Produce the most Jobs

    Job Creation: Reuse and Recycling vs. Disposal Type of Operation Jobs per 10,000 tons ofdis­card­ed mate­r­i­al per year Prod­uct Reuse Com­put­er Reuse 296 Tex­tile Reclamation 85 Misc. Durables Reuse 62 Wood­en Pal­let Repair 28 Recy­cling-based Manufacturers 25 Paper…

  • Trash Incinerator Ash — Nearly 30 tons for every 100 tons burned

    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…

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