U.S. cities have been burning municipal solid waste since the 1880s. For the first century, it was a way to get rid of trash. Today advocates have rebranded it as an environmentally friendly energy ...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia won’t stop burning trash in Chester for many years, under a plan that city officials are expected to announce on Wednesday. City Councilmember Mark Squilla ...

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Europe has poured millions of tons of its trash into ...

U.S. cities have been burning municipal solid waste since the 1880s. For the first century, it was a way to get rid of trash. Today advocates have rebranded it as an environmentally friendly energy ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — America remains awash in refuse as new cases of the coronavirus decline — and that has reignited a debate about the sustainability of burning more trash to create energy.