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EPA Paused Waste Shipments From Ohio Train Derailment After Texas Uproar

Toxic liquids were trucked 1,300 miles to be injected underground in Houston; some were also injected underground in Ohio and Michigan.

By Dylan Baddour

Trucks line up on a residential street one block from the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The residual waste was transported from Ohio to Texas. Credit: Rebecca Kiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images
Aerial view of a complementation power station combining agriculture and photovoltaic power generation on Nov. 5, 2021 in Yuanqu County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province of China. Credit: Yan Xin/VCG via Getty Images

Why the Feared Wave of Solar Panel Waste May Be Smaller and Arrive Later Than We Expected

By Dan Gearino

A rendering shows what Veridian at County Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan will look like. Credit: Developed & Designed by THRIVE Collaborative & Union Studio; Visualizations by McLennan Design

Warming Trends: New Rules for California Waste, Declining Koala Bears and Designs Meant to Help the Planet

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Workers sort recycling material at the Waste Management Material Recovery Facility in Elkridge, Maryland, June 28, 2018. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Includes Money for Recycling, But the Debate Over Plastics Rages On

By James Bruggers

Part-time worker Kenneth Moss, animal caretaker Charles DeBarber and collective founder Marvin Hayes pose in front of a mural in the Filbert Street Community garden on Nov. 2, 2021. Two turkeys, Archie and Teka, also wanted their pictures taken. Credit: Agya K. Aning

A Bridge to Composting and Clean Air in South Baltimore

By Agya K. Aning

Baltimore Aspires to ‘Zero Waste’ But Recycles Only a Tiny Fraction of its Residential Plastic

By Agya K. Aning

The smokestack of the Wheelabrator Incinerator is seen near Interstate 95 in Baltimore, Maryland on March 9, 2019. Credit: EVA CLAIRE HAMBACH,EVA HAMBACH/AFP via Getty Images

How Maryland’s Preference for Burning Trash Galvanized Environmental Activists in Baltimore

By RACHEL FRITTS

Video: Residents Fight to Keep Composting From Getting Trashed in NYC’s Covid-19 Budget Cuts

By Anna Belle Peevey, Ilana Cohen

Trash-Based Biofuels Could Alleviate Land Use, Emissions Issues

By Dave Levitan

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