Author: webmaster
-
Bioenergy Pipelines?
– August 14, 2014, Waste Management World [The latest bad idea coming out of the polluting bioenergy industry.] A scientist at the University of Alberta, Canada is research to determine whether it’s effective to use pipelines to transport agricultural waste used in biofuels. According to the university, Mahdi Vaezi, a PhD student in the Faculty of Engineering,…
-
Bioenergy Corporation to Cut and Burn Public Forests in Washington
– by Kate Prengaman, October 29, 2014 Yakima Herald-Republic Scientists are searching for the fuels of the future in high-tech laboratories around the world, but last week one research team debuted its new technology at a wood-chipping plant tucked in the forest outside Cle Elum. That’s because their technology runs on wood chips. Roasting the wood,…
-
Energy Justice Now: A Forum for Dirty Energy Opponents
Since 1999, Energy Justice Network has worked with communities across the U.S. to oppose every kind of dirty energy facility — from coal and natural-gas fired plants, to nuclear reactors, to biomass and trash incinerators — to protect human health and the natural world that keeps us alive. While countless pollution pushers have been run…
-
Money-burning Incinerator Proposed
HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY! April 1, 2014 DUNBORO – George Washington Renewable Energy is proposing the nation’s first money-to-energy facility, right here in Dunboro. Critics call it a money-burning incinerator. Nearly all of the nation’s used money is sent to landfills, but George Washington Renewable Energy sees an opportunity and hopes to generate enough electricity burning…
-
NEW STUDY: Air Pollution Good for Lungs
HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY! – by Fiske Sterling, April 1, 2014. Source: TBN News A new study out of Miskatonic University in Rhode Island has concluded that air pollution, specifically particulate matter, can repair damaged lung tissue. The scientific consensus up until this point had been that particulate matter — the byproduct of combustion from…
-
Maryland Dumps Incineration
– by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network VICTORY!! For a second year in a row, pro-incinerator legislation in Maryland was defeated. This stealthy legislation was written by Covanta (the nation’s largest trash incineration company) and would put Maryland on the path to burning nearly all of the waste that isn’t recycled. The legislation takes the Renewable Portfolio…
-
EPA Begins to Address Biomass Emissions in Permits Following Court Decision
– by Andrew Childers, March 28, 2014. Source: Environment Reporter The Environmental Appeals Board partially remanded an air pollution permit for a waste-to-energy facility in Puerto Rico after it failed to account for greenhouse gas emissions from biomass. The Energy Answers Arecibo LLC permit is one of the first to address emissions from biomass in the wake of…
-
Vermont: The Little State that Could?
– by Rachel Smolker, Biofuelwatch nosagbigsign I am fortunate to live in the tiny state of Vermont, a state that has boldly led the way on so many issues it’s hard to list them all. We were the first to pass same-sex marriage and to take serious steps to make health care accessible to all.…
-
Are Dirty Energy Opponents NIMBY? Proving Industry Wrong
It’s typical for energy developers facing community resistance to proposed facilities to try to discredit opponents by calling them NIMBY (Not in My Backyard), steering the argument away from health and environmental impacts to simply one of aesthetics. Corporate profiteers argue that local opposition doesn’t have a problem with a given energy technology itself — so long…
-
EPA Proposal Classifies Wood Fuel from Construction, Demolition
[Biomass industry pushing for even less regulation of their dirtiest fuel source. -Ed.] – by Erin Voegele, March 27, 2014. Source: Biomass Magazine Biomass industry On March 27, the U.S. EPA released a proposed rule to amend its Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials regulation under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The NHSM rule was finalized in February…
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.
Related Projects
ActionPA
EJnet
Corporations
Race & Class Census Map