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Biomass Battle Casts Spotlight on Environmental Justice
Sometimes what seems like defeat in the short term can actually turn out to be victory in the long run. One such case involves the opposition to the construction of Seneca Sawmill’s biomass power incinerator in Eugene, Oregon. While the facility fired up its smokestacks for the first time in 2011, the effort to educate…
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Allentown Residents for Clean Air bring Incinerator Issue to the Voters
An experimental trash and sewage sludge incinerator, planned in the heart of the Hispanic community in the City of Allentown, Pennsylvania is being challenged by Allentown Residents for Clean Air (ARCA). The group just submitted over 2,000 signatures to put a Clean Air Ordinance we wrote on the November ballot as an initiative. If this ballot initiative passes, Delta Thermo Energy will…
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San Francisco reports record 80% diversion rate
This is from October 2012, but still worth celebrating. We keep dealing with communities where local officials want to pursue incineration (not realizing that it’s the most expensive and polluting way to make energy or to dispose of waste) while they haven’t even tried to get serious about zero waste programs (redesign / reduce / reuse / recycle…
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