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$181,000 Fine for Ethanol Air Pollution in Albany, NY
– by Brian Nearing, December 12, 2014, Times Union An oil terminal operator at the Port of Albany has been hit with a $181,000 penalty by the state Department of Environmental Conservation for air pollution violations that lasted nearly a year. Buckeye Partners failed to properly control vapor emissions from ethanol — a corn-based biofuel used as a gasoline…
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Covanta Settles for $536,211 in Lawsuit Over Biomass Ash Testing
-December 11, 2014, Bakersfield Californian District attorneys from eight California counties announced Thursday the settlement of a civil environmental enforcement action against three subsidiaries of a New Jersey-based company. The settlement covers Covanta Energy LLC’s Kern County biomass energy facility in Delano, along with other company facilities in Mendota and Oroville. Kern County will receive about…
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New Factsheet on Energy Justice Communities Map and Justice Map
I have created a new flyer for Energy Justice Communities Map, Justice Map, and the Spatial Justice Test for Race and Income. Feel free to use this flyer at any event (like a conference, protest, workshop, class, etc) where people might be interested in these projects.
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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.
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Race & Class Census Map