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Energy Justice Network gets 131 groups opposing DOE loans for incinerators
In just six days over the holiday weekend, we got 131 groups signed on to a letter to Department of Energy, opposing billions in renewable energy subsidies from benefiting incineration, biomass and biofuels. It included about 100 grassroots or state/regional groups from 27 states plus DC and Puerto Rico as well as about 30 national…
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Dirty Wood-Heaters
– by Dr. Dorothy Robinson, Woodsmoke.3sc.net The most health-hazardous air pollutant is PM2.5 (tiny particles less than 2.5 millionth of a metre in diameter) that cause 10 to 20 times as many premature deaths as the next worst pollutant (ozone). PM2.5 penetrate the deepest recesses of our lungs. As well as causing lung disease, PM2.5…
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Biomass Growth Capacity Drops in US
– May 27, 2014, Bioenergy Insight Five new biomass plants with a total generation capacity of 10MW came online in the US last month, according to the Energy Infrastructure Update for April, published by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Since the start of 2014, 12 biomass-fired facilities producing a total 20MW of renewable energy have…
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