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Letter to EPA Objecting to Loopholes in Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants
[In May 2013, over 500 grassroots activists sent in this sign-on letter to EPA about their inadequate Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants.] Dear EPA Administrator McCarthy: Your proposed CO2 rule for new electric generating units falls short in several ways and must be strengthened so that it does not worsen global warming and…
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Biomass and Gas Incinerator Proposed for Vermont Yankee Nuke Site
– by Mike Faher, June 3, 2014, Brattleboro Reformer Selectboard members are touting the potential benefits of new biomass power plant — with the possibility of a natural-gas component — that could be built at the Vermont Yankee site after the nuclear facility shuts. Officials expect to organize a public forum to discuss the deetails of…
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Half the Wood for New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator from Out of State
– by Chris Jensen, May 23, 2014, New Hampshire Public Radio About 51 percent of the wood purchased for the new Burgess BioPower biomass plant in Berlin during its first two months of operation came from New Hampshire, according to a new “sustainability” report filed with the state’s Site Evaluation Committee. Thirty-five percent came from Maine. Five percent…
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