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Waste Incineration May Put Toxics Into Local Air [1]

Sometimes on the environment beat, what seems like an old story is perpetually new again. That’s the case with waste incineration, finds the latest TipSheet. Rather than being reduced, incinerators are just being transformed, with the ongoing burning of plastics especially troubling for the environment and public health. Get the backstory on where the regulatory regime may have holes, plus key reporting angles and story ideas.

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Activism [3]
Air [4]
Chemicals [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
Health [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Waste [14]
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National (U.S.) [15]
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Public [16]

"Rags Not Riches: Ghana Drowns In Western Castoffs" [17]

"Traders in the world's largest secondhand clothes market want reparations for chronic pollution caused by fast fashion".

Consumer [18]
Environmental Politics [9]
Pollution [13]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [16]
International [20]
Africa [21]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [22], 09/05/2023

"Texas Nuclear Waste Storage Permit Invalidated By US Appeals Court" [23]

"A U.S. appeals court on Friday canceled a license granted by a federal agency to a company to build a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in western Texas, which the Republican-led state has argued would be dangerous to build in one of the nation's largest oil basins.

A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacked the authority under federal law to issue permits for private, temporary nuclear waste storage sites.

Energy & Fuel [6]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [24]
Waste [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
Source: Reuters [26], 08/29/2023

"There Might Be Less Plastic in the Sea Than We Thought. But Read On." [27]

"A new study has some good news, but there’s a problem: Ocean pollution appears to be growing fast."

Chemicals [5]
Consumer [18]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
Natural Resources [29]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [16]
International [20]
Source: NYTimes [30], 08/08/2023

In Youngstown, a Downtown Tire Pyrolysis Plant Is a ‘Recipe for Disaster’ [31]

"A developer has big ideas to turn tires, plastic and electronic waste into energy at 30 locations, starting with a tire-to-gas plant next to the jail and student housing in the heart of what was once Ohio’s Steel Valley."

Air [4]
Chemicals [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [32]
Pollution [13]
Waste [14]
Public [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [33]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 08/08/2023

"Takin’ Out The Trash: How Do Transnational Waste Traffickers Operate?" [35]

"Sneaky use of waste codes, fake documentation, corruption and taking advantage of control loopholes are among the many ways waste is illegally trafficked to countries with more competitive rates and lower environmental standards."

Laws & Regulations [12]
Waste [14]
Public [16]
International [20]
Source: Mongabay [36], 08/04/2023

"Indonesia Cracks Down on the Scourge of Imported Plastic Waste" [37]

"When China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, exporters in wealthy countries targeted other developing nations. Faced with an unending stream of unrecyclable waste, Indonesia has tightened its regulations and has begun to make progress in stemming the plastics flow."

Chemicals [5]
Consumer [18]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [16]
International [20]
Australia & Oceania [38]
Source: YaleE360 [39], 08/02/2023

"Tracing Mining’s Threat to U.S. Waters" [40]

"Environmental concerns are raised anew about potential contamination from Canadian open-pit mines flowing through the waterways into Montana’s lakes, harming fish."

Environmental Health [7]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [29]
Pollution [13]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Canada [41]
Source: NYTimes [42], 07/11/2023

UN Accord On Ship Recycling To Start 2 Years After More Countries Join [43]

"An international accord on recycling ships is set to begin within 24 months after Bangladesh and Liberia became the latest countries to ratify the accord, officials said on Monday."

Economy & Business [44]
Infrastructure [45]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [16]
International [20]
Source: Reuters [46], 06/27/2023

"US Lagging on Ocean Plastic Litter, OECD Says in Critical Report" [47]

"An international organization of democracies chastised the US on Thursday for its outsize contribution to marine plastic litter."

Chemicals [5]
Consumer [18]
Environmental Studies [48]
Pollution [13]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [49], 06/23/2023

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