Recognizing the threat incinerators pose to public health, Congress directed the EPA to set strict limits on all waste-burning incinerators by 1994. Twenty years later, EPA has only set pollution limits for 106 of the about 15,000 total facilities across the country.

Commercial/industrial waste-burning incinerators burn waste produced from utilities and mining, oil and gas operations or from the manufacturing of wood and pulp products, chemicals and rubber. About 15,000 incinerators are scattered across our country. Recognizing the threat these incinerators pose to public health, Congress directed the Environmental Protection Agency to set strict limits on all…

Opening brief in challenge to EPA's standards for incinerators, kilns, and other waste burning units.

Becky is a resident of DeSoto, TX, and a board member of Downwinders at Risk, a grassroots citizens group organized to oppose cement plant pollution in North Texas.

A memorandum from the U.S. EPA to Eastern Research Group, Inc. on the Final Reconsideration Baseline Emissions and Emissions Reductions Estimates for Existing CISWI Units.