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State of Illinois Settles Ethanol Spill Fish Kill Case
– by Pam Eggemeier, March 5, 2015, Sauk Valley A settlement has been reached with a railroad company responsible for an ethanol spill that caused a significant fish kill in the Rock River nearly 6 years ago, Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office announced Thursday. In June 2009, a Chicago, Central and Pacific Railroad train derailed in…
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Kauai Biomass Facility to Get Fuel from Burned Forest
– by Chris D’Angelo, March 5, 2015, The Garden Island It is unlike any other logging operation in Hawaii’s history. And the $90 million biomass-to-energy facility the logs are destined for is as unique as the project itself, state officials say. “This is the largest operation that we’ve had,” said Lisa Hadway, administrator of the state…
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Biomass: The Unsustainable Energy Source
– by Atheo, Aletho News The promotional material from Big Green Energy, aka Biomass Gas & Electric, presents biomass as “clean, renewable energy,” sustainable and green. The US Department of Energy uses the terms “clean and renewable” when introducing visitors at its website to the topic. But is it accurate to describe the repeated removal of…
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