CHICAGO (AP) -- Four Illinois hospitals are resisting demands by Gov. Rod Blagojevich to shut down their medical waste incinerators, indicating they should be paid to do so in order to recoup the cost ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has received negative declarations from Louisiana, certifying that there are no existing Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste ...

The National Environment Management Authority (Nema) is planning to take legal action against Embu Provincial General Hospital for failure to acquire recommended incinerators. Eastern Provincial ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A handful of Illinois hospitals are pumping dangerous substances into the air by burning medical waste and should abandon the practice, Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Monday, and ...

For Auburn Memorial Hospital, the choice was the frying pan or the fire. Required by state regulations to upgrade its incinerator by 1992 or shut it down, AMH ...