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Biomass Combustion: Harmful on any Scale
– by Cathy Baiton, Only Clean Air In the same way that industrial biomass combustion can seriously jeopardize public health and the environment in communities, residential and smaller-scale commercial biomass burning also have adverse impacts on health and air quality in neighborhoods. In many cities and towns, increased wood burning, both indoor and outdoor, has become…
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Energy Justice Now – A Forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance [June 2014]
Check out the inaugural June 2014 issue of Energy Justice Network’s new publication, Energy Justice Now! In the June issue of Energy Justice Now (a forum for the dirty energy resistance): -“Why Solidarity is Needed More Than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incinerator Fighters“ -“Public Lands, Dirty Energy“ -“On the Dirty Energy Policy Front“ …and more!!! Please share the June 2014 issue…
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On the Dirty Energy Policy Front
by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network While Energy Justice Network’s work is mainly focused on helping you win grassroots victories, we’ve had to weigh in on some state and national policies that would have major consequences for how many bad ideas need to be fought. Misguided policies aiming to limit coal or climate pollution continue…
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Why Solidarity is Needed More than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incinerator Fighters
– by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network Most progress in stopping polluting energy and waste industries is accomplished by grassroots activism, stopping one project at a time. Many assume that grassroots groups are “NIMBY” types just pushing polluters from one community to another. However, 50% to 95% of each wave of industrial development in recent decades has…
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Letter to EPA Objecting to Loopholes in Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants
[In May 2013, over 500 grassroots activists sent in this sign-on letter to EPA about their inadequate Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants.] Dear EPA Administrator McCarthy: Your proposed CO2 rule for new electric generating units falls short in several ways and must be strengthened so that it does not worsen global warming and…
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Biomass and Gas Incinerator Proposed for Vermont Yankee Nuke Site
– by Mike Faher, June 3, 2014, Brattleboro Reformer Selectboard members are touting the potential benefits of new biomass power plant — with the possibility of a natural-gas component — that could be built at the Vermont Yankee site after the nuclear facility shuts. Officials expect to organize a public forum to discuss the deetails of…
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Half the Wood for New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator from Out of State
– by Chris Jensen, May 23, 2014, New Hampshire Public Radio About 51 percent of the wood purchased for the new Burgess BioPower biomass plant in Berlin during its first two months of operation came from New Hampshire, according to a new “sustainability” report filed with the state’s Site Evaluation Committee. Thirty-five percent came from Maine. Five percent…
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Baltimore Residents Face Potential Risks from New Incinerator
– by Jaisal Noor, May 27, 2014, The Real News VIDEO HERE JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: This is Baltimore’s Benjamin Franklin High. Will a the country’s largest incinerator, being built just one mile from here, endanger the health of the students at the school? The Energy Answers Fairfield Renewable Energy Project will burn 4,000 tons of…
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Hazardous Waste is Not Clean, Renewable Energy
– by Lisa Wozniak, June 2, 2014, Lansing News People in politics tell a lot of “success” stories, but one that can be substantiated is the rise of clean, renewable energy in Michigan. Thanks to a law passed with bipartisan support in 2008, Michigan has been challenged to generate 10 percent of its energy from renewable…
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Maryland adopting pro-burn zero waste plan; enviros object to it
Maryland has proposed an ambitious zero waste plan to reduce, reuse, recycle, compost and burn its waste.Something is wrong with this picture… burning isn’t part of real zero waste programs! Our comments oppose incineration and demonstrate that Maryland does NOT have the landfill space crisis they pretend to have.
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