BALTIMORE (AP) — A medical waste processing company has pleaded guilty to dozens of environment-related charges and agreed to pay $1.75 million in fines after state prosecutors in Maryland accused a ...

Maryland’s two largest health systems have taken contrasting positions on their future dealings with a controversial medical waste incinerator in South Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Health System and ...

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BACK YEARS. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS THIS COMPANY PUT THE COMMUNITY AT RISK. NOW CURTIS BAY WILL PAY A $1 MILLION FINE AND SERVE TWO YEARS PROBATION. THE INVESTIGATION, WHICH BEGAN IN NOVEMBER OF ...

An environmental scientist, who led medical waste treatment during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, says that COVID-19 is one of the "easiest pathogens to destroy" and hospitals need not resort ...

North Salt Lake, Utah — (KUTV) Stericycle, a medical waste incinerator that broke pollution limits and faced a hefty fine, is still in North Salt Lake -- 2 1/2 years after a deal with the state, in ...

A medical waste disposal company with a shoddy environmental record in Utah is considering moving a waste incinerator from Salt Lake City to North Las Vegas, a spokesperson from the company confirmed.

This story has been corrected. Covanta Marion is designed to burn about 187,00 tons of waste per year, and can burn about 18,700 tons of medical waste under current federal rules. Marion County ...

An Oakland medical waste incinerator that is the only one of its kind in California will be shut down tomorrow, ending a long dispute with critics who say it was spewing toxic substances into the air.

Medical waste processor Stericycle Inc. will pay $600,000 in penalties and another $2 million toward replacing old school buses under an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ...

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