Major changes to air emissions standards helped drastically reduce pollution since the ‘90s, but outdated pre-regulation data ...

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 ...

The guidance, now updated once a year, maintains that landfills are likely emitting more PFAS than previously thought. Newer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters extinguish a fire using aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), which is manufactured with per- and polyfluoroakyl, or PFAS ...

Garbage incineration plant. Waste incinerator plant with smoking smokestack. The problem of environmental pollution by factories. Increasing waste incineration capacity in European Union’s countries ...

When a developer abruptly dropped plans for a waste-incineration plant in North Las Vegas, a few hundred residents fighting the plans saw victory – the end of a contentious, if short-lived, proposal.

The government must introduce an incineration levy to help tackle the UK’s waste crisis, says an engineer and former government adviser. Recycling expert Richard Waite says a landfill-tax-style tariff ...

Duke professor Daniel Richter thinks about dirt. A lot actually. Earlier this year, Richter’s soil-centered tendencies threw him into the muddy arena of Durham politics. Testing conducted by Richter ...

A medical waste disposal company with a shoddy environmental record in Utah is considering moving a waste incinerator from Salt Lake City to North Las Vegas, a spokesperson from the company confirmed.

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 ...