Under pressure from Gov. George E. Pataki and Borough President Fernando Ferrer, Browning-Ferris Industries agreed to shut its incinerator down rather than continue trying to fix it.
Ray Brent Marsh, now in jail charged with theft by deception, has said the crematory stopped because its incinerator broke down.
The company, which has spent $22 million since 2002 upgrading its incinerator to comply with tougher standards of the Clean Air Act, reported 70 deviations, or faulty occurrences, from 2006 to 2008.
The Safety-Kleen Corporation, one of the country's largest hazardous-waste managers, will close its incinerator in Logan Township, N.J., the company has announced.
Oahu, which is Hawaii's most populous island and the home of Honolulu, is expanding its incinerator, which burns trash and generates electricity, but the project is not expected to be finished for a couple of years.
Despite a federal ban on importing PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, the company, Veolia Environmental Services, has asked the Environmental Protection Agency for an exemption to move the chemicals by truck from Mexico and to burn them at its incinerator just outside Port Arthur.
To the chagrin of some in City Hall, the state-appointed group determined that Harrisburg must immediately pursue a sale of its incinerator and parking system.
An hour's drive from the nearest city and 370 miles from Tokyo, the village was forced to change the way it managed its waste in 2000, when strict new regulations on dioxin emissions forced it to shut down its two incinerators.
New York City's biggest sewage plant and one of its three incinerators are nearby.
