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Yosemite’s Burned Areas Are Alive
Yosemite’s Burned Areas Are Alive – by Chad Hanson, October 3, 2013. Source: Los Angeles Times It was entirely predictable. Even before the ashes have cooled on the 257,000-acre Rim fire in and around Yosemite this year, the timber industry and its allies in Congress were using the fire as an excuse for suspending environmental laws and expanding logging operations on federal land.…
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Commission Revises Archaeological Conditions for Hu Honua Bioenergy
Commission Revises Archaeological Conditions for Hu Honua Bioenergy – by Tom Callis, October 4, 2013. Source: Hawaii Tribune-Herald The Hu Honua Bioenergy project was back before the Windward Planning Commission briefly Thursday. Third Circuit Court Judge Greg Nakamura, who is handling the appeal of a contested case hearing regarding the 21.5-megawatt biomass power plant under construction near…
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Biomass Injustice
Two Biomass Injustices – by Ron Saff, M.D., October 27, 2013. Source: Gainesville Sun Turkey Creek residents face two deep injustices: health risks from air pollution and noise pollution. Tons of carcinogens will soon belch from the biomass plant. In a 2009 letter to then-Sen. John Kerry, the American Lung Association stated that biomass burning releases toxic…
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