CEDAR RAPIDS - The city is moving ahead on a proposal to turn sewage sludge into electricity. The City Council last night gave Pat Ball, the city's utilities director, the go ahead to refine plans ...

Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune D'Juan Hernandez, president and CEO of Sun Energy Group, which is proposing a plasma arc gasification plant in eastern New Orleans. Critics say 'gasification' is just ...

A Chauvin-born futuristic incinerator had a test run that destroyed three tons of trash, leaving almost no carbon footprint. A front loader shoveled 250 pounds of trash into the furnace containing ...

The need for landfills could be eliminated by vaporising garbage and sewage to produce electricity, claims a company in Atlanta, Georgia. Geoplasma is planning to build a huge $425 million ...