-
Forest Thinning Will Increase Wildfire Risk
– by Charles Thomas, The Oregonian As fires again rage across the West, senators from John McCain, R-Ariz., to Ron Wyden, D-Ore., echo the refrain “thin the forests” to prevent wildfires. Unfortunately, most of the advocated thinning will actually stoke the wildfires of the future rather than lessen their occurrence and impacts. Thinning prescriptions proposed in…
-
2014: The Year of the Smokestack Smackdown [Energy Justice Now, August 2014]
Prepare yourself for the August issue of Energy Justice Network’s new publication, Energy Justice Now! – “2014 a Banner Year for Victories” – “Derailing NYC Trash Train in Chester, PA” – “Vermont Yankee: Out of the Fission and Into the Fire?” …and more!!! Please share the August 2014 issue of Energy Justice Now with your friends, colleagues, neighbors, media, and elected officials! Subscribe to monthly…
-
New or Updated Online Resources:
We’ve added several things to our incineration webpage, including pages on how trash incineration is more polluting than coal and is the most expensive way to manage waste or to make energy. We added a chart showing the decline in the number of operating incinerators in the U.S., a list of all commercial trash incinerators in the U.S., by size and a page explaining to…
Blog
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.
Related Projects
ActionPA
EJnet
Corporations
Race & Class Census Map