Emissions

GE Lighting has helped pave the way to shave 1.2 billion kWh (kilowatt hours) of electricity use in consumer homes by converting Walmart shoppers from traditional light bulbs to energy-efficient LEDs over the last two years. Not only has this...

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has created a UFO-like light installation that tracks pieces of space waste in real time...

A Virgin Atlantic plane fueled with waste carbon gas from a steel mill has just flown from Orlando, Fla., to London. This was the first commercial flight to operate on recycled waste fuel...

The Cumberland County, Va., board of supervisors has approved a conditional land use permit and rezoning of 1,144 acres for a landfill. The board has also signed a host agreement with County Waste, which will own the facility...

Environmental regulators in Maryland are demanding that the Wheelabrator Baltimore incinerator cut its emissions of air pollutants by one-fifth...

The Trump administration is on track to eliminate numerous environmental rules previously put in place under the Obama administration...

Over the past few years, there have been major changes in landfill technology, including reduced sensor and equipment costs, improvements in communication technologies (improved radios, communication protocols, high-speed and low cost cellular...