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AUDIO: Energy’s Water Footprint in the Western Drought
Drought in the western U.S. is in the news every day, yet most media coverage ignores the impact from water withdrawals for industrial power facilities. While municipal and agricultural use are major drains on limited water resources, so too are biomass, coal, natural gas, and nuclear power facilities. On August 20, EJN spoke with Stacy Tellinghuisen,…
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If You Build It, They Will Cut
Generating biomass energy doesn’t result in more logging, according to the biomass industry, whose spokespersons claim facilities only make use of “waste” wood already coming from existing logging operations. Ron Kotrba, Senior Editor for Pellet Mill Magazine, wrote in the May/June 2015 issue that biomass is the “most unlikely of the forest products to drive…
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When Zero Waste is Environmental Racism
– by Kaya Banton, Chester Environmental Justice My name is Kaya Banton and I have been a resident of Chester, Pennsylvania all of my life. Chester is a small city right outside of Philadelphia known as one of the worst cases of environmental racism. There are a number of polluting facilities in and surrounding Chester.…
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