Twin Cities residents push for environmental justice
There’s an urgency in affected communities to get polluting facilities like the HERC out of their neighborhoods.
Source: minnpost.com
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Environmental advocates present plan to close HERC trash incinerator by 2025
The HERC currently takes in about half of Hennepin County’s trash. It burns waste to produce electricity, which is then sold to Xcel Energy.
Source: mprnews.org
Activists detail quicker, two-year timeline to close Hennepin County trash incinerator
Environmental and social justice activists said Wednesday that Hennepin County leaders' plans to operate a controversial trash incinerator for another decade are unacceptable. Instead, the Zero Burn Coalition detailed a timeline that would close the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) on the edge of downtown Minneapolis by the end of 2025. Activists' expedited timeline includes something ...
Source: yahoo.com
Big money and policy changes need before trash incinerator can close
Hennepin County needs to dramatically change how it deals with solid waste if leaders are going to close a controversial trash incinerator and not send more garbage to landfills. That was the takeaway from a 39-page briefing on "reinventing the county's solid waste system" presented Thursday in response to a unanimous resolution from the County Board in October asking what it would take to ...
Source: yahoo.com
Pollution from sugar farming burns area residents
Tons of ash falls from the sky. Area residents in south Florida call it black snow, and it is making some of them sick.
Source: usf.edu