MARCH 2008 - For Carbon Emissions, A Goal Of Less Than Zero

Released: 3/26/2008

(New York, NY)  Anthony J. Orlando, Covanta’s president and chief executive officer, discusses how the Energy-from-Waste industry may earn carbon credits in a New York Times article published on March 26. In the story, Mr. Orlando is quoted saying that each ton of waste combusted  would have otherwise been buried in a landfill where bacteria digest garbage to make methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Read the full story in The New York Times.