Press Releases

PRESS RELEASE: Industry Front Group Promotes Practices that Bankrupt American Cities
The Earth Engineering Center (EEC) of Columbia University, an industry-sponsored think tank,1 released a report yesterday claiming that burning municipal waste and plastics would be beneficial for the U.S.2 However the report’s conclusions fail to address the serious environmental and economic impacts of incineration, and the real threats that trash incinerators pose for cities across America.
Obama Administration Advances Efforts to Protect Health of U.S. Communities Overburdened by Pollution
US Department of the Interior
August 4th, 2011
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 environmental justice strategies to protect the health of people living in communities overburdened by pollution and provide the public with annual progress reports on their efforts.
Biomass Electricity: Clean Energy Subsidies for a Dirty Industry
The case for ending taxpayer and ratepayer subsidies that harm public health, environment, climate, and forest
Groups Praise House Appropriations Subcommittee Vote to Slash BCAP Funding
Biopfuels Watch
May 27th, 2011
A coalition of environmental and citizen groups praised this week's decision by the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee to slash Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) funding for 2012.
Communities Stop Polluting Waste Burners, Promote Zero Waste
December 1st, 2010
New U.S. Government Report Finds Incineration the Most Expensive Form of Power Generation
USA: Action to End Detroit's Wasteful Incinerator
Frontline Communities and Teamsters Demand Clean Air, Good Jobs and Justice Detroit, Michigan, U.S., June 27, 2010 – Environmental justice advocates from across the U.S., the Teamsters Union, and neighborhood residents marched together this morning to the world’s largest waste incinerator to demand its closure. Representatives of Detroit’s pollution-impacted communities and their allies from across the country united to press the city’s Mayor for a just transition from burning waste to building resiliency in the face of ill-health, a crumbling economy, and the global climate crisis.
Saturday Action Aims to End Detroit’s Wasteful Incineration in Favor of Clean Energy, Jobs
Teamsters, environmental justice groups demand smarter, cleaner options
Groups across North America hail Massachusetts policy shift from waste incineration to waste reduction
December 15th, 2009
Environmental and public interest groups across the continent applauded the announcement that a new Massachusetts waste plan will retain and strengthen the moratorium on increased incineration of municipal solid waste, and introduce new measures to reduce waste dramatically.
New Report: Despite Green Claims, Incinerator Industry Just Blowing Smoke
Press release about An Industry Blowing Smoke: problems with gasification, pyrolysis and plasma incinerators exposed.
Local Activists Head to Washington DC to Tell Congress: Protect Climate AND Health
Toxic technologies and burning garbage should not be called “renewable energy” Recycling, composting better for our future and our health
Community-Based for Zero Waste
Waste disposal industries have a long history of being highly unpopular, toxic, economically disastrous, and disproportionately burdensome to people of color and low-income communities. By repackaging incinerators and landfills as "green," these industries are working to expand existing disposal projects and to site a new fleet of pollution-ridden incinerators and landfills in communities. This would erode community efforts to protect health, reduce waste and combat global warming, and reverse decades of progress achieved by the environmental justice and health movements.
Canada: Vente De L'Incinerateur De Belledune: Aveu D'Échec De La Part De Bennett
Environnement Vie Coalition Retour à l'expéditeur
le 7 juillet 2008, Baie-des-Chaleurs, Canada. - La vente de l'incinérateur de sol contaminé de Belledune par Bennett Environmental Inc. est un aveu d'échec de la part de la compagnie.


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