Standing on Principle: The Global Push for Environmental Justice
Learn how communities all over the world are finding commonality in seeking environmental justice in this Environmental Health Perspectives article.
View ArticleStop Trashing the Climate Report
The Stop Trashing the Climate report, written by GAIA, the Institute for Local Self Reliance and Eco-Cycle, provides compelling evidence that preventing waste and expanding reuse, recycling, and...
View ArticleGAIA's Statement of Concern on Waste and Climate Change
GAIA's position paper on waste and climate change calls for Zero Waste strategies to address global warming and rejects the false solutions of incinerators and landfill gas collection.
View ArticleMinistry of Environment threatens to shut down Friends of the Earth Croatia
Croatian Ministry of Environment attempts to shut down Friends of the Earth Croatia with court case over peaceful protest action!
View ArticleChina's middle-class rise up in environmental protest
China's burgeoning middle class has lodged its first mass challenge against the government by staging a large environmental protest in southern China.
View ArticleGreen Schemes Turn Into White Elephants
Several incinerator facilities that were supposed to turn waste into energy have proven to be white elephants that are now adding to the country
View ArticleFight is on to stop new incinerator plan
CAMPAIGNERS have vowed to fight plans, which could see an incinerator built on Deeside amid fears over health.
View ArticleHow did Harrisburg get millions in debt?: From the archives
This story originally ran in The Patriot-News Oct. 28, 2007. On July 19 2011, the Harrisburg City Council rejected a state-created Act 47 debt-recovery plan linked to the incinerator debt.
View ArticleCool Plasma Gasification Claims Just
Our own Monica Wilson refutes the claims of Kris Skrinak, CEO of a gasification company which creates syngas from waste.
View ArticleObama Administration Advances Efforts to Protect Health of U.S. Communities...
Building on its commitment to ensuring strong protection from environmental and health hazards for all Americans, the Obama Administration today announced Federal agencies have agreed to develop...
View ArticleEnvironmental groups appeal permit for Wash. biomass cogen plant
An environmental group opposed to biomass incineration said July 21 that it is appealing the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency's decision to issue an air permit for Nippon Paper Industries USA's 20-MW...
View ArticleTrash-burn plant subsidy put off
The Public Service Commission has put off a decision on whether burning residential trash to make electricity should qualify for renewable energy state subsidies.
View ArticleDurban Climate Change Conference - November 2011
View a panel discussion on the contributions of waste picking.
View ArticleVeolia Takes Severe Blow As It Fails To Win 485 Million Pound Contract In...
Human rights campaigners are celebrating after the West London Waste Authority ('WLWA') excluded French multinational Veolia from a
View ArticleFacts Rule Out Trash Gasification
Since WW II attempts to gasify municipal solid waste (MSW) have failed repeatedly. Processing trash with high heat is (1) polluting; (2) expensive; (3) energy inefficient; (4) destroys resources that...
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