Pollution streams out of a factory chimney.

Opposition to Waste Incineration in Upstate New York County

Date: 2 May 2018 | posted in: waste - anti-incineration, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Thanks to Laura Haight, Partnership for Policy Integrity, for alerting us to the anti garbage incineration campaign in Rockland County, N.Y.

The Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) was founded in 2010. The organization uses science, legal action, and strategic communications to promote sound energy policy and to help citizens enact science-based policies that protect air, water, ecosystems, and the climate.

Citizens in Rockland County, NY successfully blocked construction of a proposal by New Planet Energy to build the largest waste gasification facility in the country, right on the shores of the beautiful Hudson River, just north of New York City. Congratulations to the citizen action group NOPE! (No New Project Energy (NOPE).

Read the full article, Stony Point: Proposed trash-to-energy plant withdrawn amid opposition by Rochel Leah Goldblatt, Lohud.

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Neil Seldman, Ph.D, directs the Waste to Wealth Initiative. He specializes in helping cities and businesses recover increasing amounts of materials from the waste stream and add value to the local economy through new processing and manufacturing facilities. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.