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Bioenergy Wrecks the Climate
– by Ellen Moyer, December 2, 2015, Huffington Post Massive logging operations underway in North Carolina (Photo: Dogwood Alliance) Climate change is telling us to stop pitching pollution into the atmosphere–in much the same way that the bubonic plague taught our ancestors to stop dumping filth into the streets in the Middle Ages. We listened then,…
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Huge Waste Burner Plan Defeated in FL?
The controversial 41-year old Covanta Dade trash incinerator in Doral, Florida burned down in a massive 3-week long fire in February 2023. Ever since, Miami-Dade County has been hell-bent on building the nation’s largest waste incinerator to replace it. This 4,000 ton/day burner would have been located in one of four communities of color in…
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Are Carbon Taxes Another False Solution?
– by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network October 2014 Carbon taxes are emerging as a major top-down climate solution enviros would like to see come out of Congress. Plenty of “tax carbon” signs were present in the 400,000-strong People’s Climate March in New York City last month. Even U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging nations to…
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