With fire season starting, officials with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Air Quality Division wants to remind people it is illegal to burn trash. Judge says dismantling ...

Trash burning has been illegal since 1971 in the state and under the law, NCDEQ can issue fines of up to $25,000. There are some provisions on what type of yard waste is acceptable to burn.

With fire season starting, officials with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Air Quality Division wants to remind people it is illegal to burn trash. 35,725 people played the ...

The Boston Fire Department said they responded around 8:30 a.m. after receiving reports of heavy smoke coming from a large trash transfer station at 65 Gerard St. in Roxbury. Mutual aid was called ...

BURNING of trash is both dangerous and illegal. It can worsen the air quality and cause destructive fires in neighborhoods. Laws that include the ban of open burning include Republic Act (RA) 9003, or ...

Another fire broke out near Sanjeevani Hospital, allegedly due to burning garbage, though a detailed report on the incident is still awaited.

People should only burn clean and dry wood and never burn trash, the fire captain said. “Definitely do not use any kind of ignitable fluids to get it started,” he said. “Pay attention to ...

Toxic smoke billows from a burning mound of plastic bags and leaves on Le Thi Huyen's farm in Hanoi, a city battling an alarming air pollution surge that the communist government appears in no hurry ...