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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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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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Nuisance Lawsuit against Covanta Plymouth Renewable Energy trash incinerator
2:20-cv-04330-HB Lloyd v. Covanta Plymouth Renewable Energy, LLCHARVEY BARTLE, III, presidingDate filed: 09/03/2020Date of last filing: 04/01/2021 Doc.No. Dates Description 1 Filed & Entered: 09/03/2020 Complaint (IFP or Government Plaintiff) Filed & Entered: 09/09/2020 Summons Issued 2 Filed & Entered: 09/10/2020 APPLICATION for Admission Pro Hac Vice (Credit Card) 3 Filed & Entered: 09/10/2020…
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Trash Incinerator Ash – Nearly 30 tons for every 100 tons burned
For every 100 tons burned in an incinerator, about 30 tons of toxic ash are produced. This is evidenced by the data from various incinerators. Below is data from trash incinerators in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, where state waste disposal databases provide the tonnages burned and tons of ash disposed. Pennsylvania now provides this raw…
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No waste burning in Albany County, NY!
Albany County, NY is home to many waste burning threats. Years ago, Albany City hosted the notorious ANSWERS trash incinerator, a controversial case of environmental racism. That incinerator has been closed since 1995. However, the county also hosts four sewage sludge incinerators (two still operating, and being phased out and replaced with anaerobic digesters), and…
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Baltimore Passes Local Clean Air Act!
Our years of work in Baltimore are paying off! On March 7, 2019, the Baltimore’s Mayor Pugh signed into law our Baltimore Clean Air Act. This is the culmination of years of work to close the highly polluting waste incinerators in the city. It’s also a new phase in our ongoing work to transition Baltimore…
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Our first victory of 2017! Hazardous waste incinerator defeated in the heart of gasland.
On March 29th, 2017, a rural township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, passed a local clean air law based on one we drafted for them in June 2016. It may be the first in the country to contain a “citizen suit” provision, allowing any Township resident or taxpayer to sue to enforce the ordinance if the…
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Pennsylvania College Students Tell Wolf: No New Pipelines, Green Jobs Now
On Monday, students from 19 Pennsylvania colleges and universities delivered a statement to Governor Tom Wolf’s Capitol office demanding no new natural gas pipelines and immediate investment in green jobs. The students are attending Pennsylvania Student Power Spring Break near Harrisburg, an alternative spring break program for students working on social, economic, and environmental justice…
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Environmental Justice and Your Block
We wanted to create a visualization that shows how income varies by block to facilitate community environmental justice organizing. In some neighborhoods there are major differences between blocks, and these differences are used by corporations to decide what blocks to target with toxic facilities. So we recently finished a highly experimental layer that estimates median…
EJ Communities Map
We are mapping all of the existing, proposed, closed and defeated dirty energy and waste facilities in the US. We are building a network of community groups to fight the facilities and the corporations behind them.
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