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Covanta Settles for $536,211 in Lawsuit Over Biomass Ash Testing
-December 11, 2014, Bakersfield Californian District attorneys from eight California counties announced Thursday the settlement of a civil environmental enforcement action against three subsidiaries of a New Jersey-based company. The settlement covers Covanta Energy LLC’s Kern County biomass energy facility in Delano, along with other company facilities in Mendota and Oroville. Kern County will receive about…
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New Factsheet on Energy Justice Communities Map and Justice Map
I have created a new flyer for Energy Justice Communities Map, Justice Map, and the Spatial Justice Test for Race and Income. Feel free to use this flyer at any event (like a conference, protest, workshop, class, etc) where people might be interested in these projects.
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So-Called Conservation Groups Betray Environmental Movement
– by Howie Wolke, December 11, 2014, Wilderness Watch My name is Howie Wolke and I live in the foothills of the Gallatin Range in southern Montana just north of Yellowstone National Park, about a mile from the greater Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Complex. I’ve been a wilderness guide/outfitter for backpacking and canoe trips since 1978. I am…
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Tampa Man Sentenced for $3 Million Biofuels Fraud
– by Susan Salisbury, December 9, 2014, Palm Beach Post A Tampa man was sentenced today on charges he scammed investors out of more than $3 million after promising returns on bio-energy crops such as camelina that were not even planted William A. Vasden Jr. who once headed the Florida Feedstock Growers Association, was sentenced…
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Windfarms More Efficient than Biofuels?
– by Aidan Harrison, December 5, 2014, Northumberland Gazette Its obsession with ‘markets’ has already placed our railways and utilities in the hands of big foreign state and corporate-owned monopolies. The first thing to make clear is that the technology of wind power is nothing like as inefficient as its fanatical detractors claim. In terms of…
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December issue of Energy Justice Now | Celebrating 16 Victories for Clean Air in 2014!
Never fear, the December issue of Energy Justice Now — the national forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance — is here! energyjustice.net Inside this issue: Celebrating 16 Victories for Clean Air in 2014! – 16 Victories for Clean Air – From Shock to Victory: The Planet’s “Immune System” at Work – Incinerator in Frederick, MD Canceled After Decade-Long Fight …and more! Please…
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Incinerator in Frederick, MD Canceled After Decade-Long Fight
– by Patrice Gallagher, No Incinerator Alliance On November 20, 2014, Frederick County, Maryland’s Board of County Commissioners cancelled plans to build a 1500 ton-per-day waste-to-energy incinerator, ending a 10 year citizens’ effort to kill the project and put better alternatives for community waste management in place. The vote was 3 to 2, and all…
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From Shock to Victory: The Planet’s “Immune System” at Work
– by Jan Baty, Newark Residents Against the Power Plant As I saw Alex Lotorto (campus and community organizer for Energy Justice Network) step out of his car, unloading materials for the meeting he was to lead at my house, I had a flash back to how I had discovered the Energy Justice Network. In…
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Ethanol Spill in Greensboro, North Carolina
– December 8, 2014, Biofuels International Firefighters in Greensboro, North Carolina, responded to a leaking tanker at a Ryder truck rental facility. Approximately 2,000 gallons of ethanol spilled in an accident in south Greensboro North Carolina. A tanker filled with ethanol burst after the landing gear, which is used to keep the trailer upright when not…
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Census Bureau Releases Biomass Incinerator Data
– by Erin Voegele, December 3, 2014, Biomass Magazine The U.S. Census Bureau recently released new economic census statistics on renewable energy, reporting that revenues for electric power generation industries that use renewable energy resources increased 49 percent from 2007 to 2012, reaching $9.8 billion. In 2007, revenue was only $6.6 billion. Biomass is among the…
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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