Covanta Energy, which operates four "waste-to-energy" incinerators on Long Island, Thursday withdrew its petition asking state regulators to qualify such plants for renewable energy subsidies.

View a panel discussion on the contributions of waste picking.

Durban, December 5, 2011

Cebu City

A huge pile of fly ash recently discovered off Hicks Lane in north Chico has raised environmental concerns with the Butte County District Attorney's Office. The pile, which is larger in length and width than a football field and about 20 feet tall, sits on property owned by MGM Trucking and has been traced to the Pacific Oroville Power Inc. cogeneration plant in Oroville.

New Delhi - 28-year old Mohammad Azhar sifts through heaps of waste at New Delhi's eastern Ghazipur landfill at dusk, the end of another day's struggle for livelihood and survival. With bruised and blackened hands, Azhar collects plastics, metals and other recyclable materials to sell to local scrap-dealer for 150 rupees (about 3 dollars) to provide for his family's main meal for the day.

28 November 2011. Last week Friday saw the ending of the Dirty Energy Week strategy conference, organised by the South African based environmental justice NGO, groundWork together with 14 national and international NGO

Residents Protest Corpn Move To Install Incinerators At Kodungaiyur, Perungudi

Garbage bills throughout Stanislaus County would shoot higher in coming months to stop a sudden financial hemorrhage at the garbage-burning plant owned by the county and Modesto.

"Too polluted an area to be married into or from" is the dubious status that young men and women of Haji Colony here have been battling for the past few years now.

A CONTROVERSIAL proposed waste incinerator will go before York councillors again.

S. Korea's major superstores declared a "No Disposable Plastic Bags" policy, resulting in zero disposable plastic bags from these stores as well as a 55 percent increase in the number of customers using reusable tote bags, which equals a CO2 reduction of 6,865 tons and a cost savings of 10 million US dollars.

New Delhi is among the first Indian cities to launch waste-management projects, like incinerators, that are bound to cut waste-workers access to trash.

This weekend was abuzz with talks of a looming Durban Mandate that would be crystallised as one of the outcomes of the Climate talks. It was for precisely this reason that more than ten thousand people took to the streets of Durban to demonstrate civil society