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Study Finds Ethanol Worse For Air Quality Than Gasoline
– by Bill Hudson, December 17, 2014, CBS Minnesota For years, the state’s corn and ethanol industries have touted the environmental benefits of burning the alternative fuel in our vehicles. But newly released research from the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering is raising eyebrows. The study compared pollution levels from gasoline fuel and…
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Maryland “Zero-Waste” Plan Draws Fire Over Inclusion of Incineration
– by Timothy B. Wheeler, December 15, 2014, The Baltimore Sun With Marylanders throwing away far more trash per person than the average American, the O’Malley administration released a long-range plan Monday to virtually eliminate placing waste in state landfills in the next 25 years. The plan is drawing mixed reaction, however, as environmentalists criticize the…
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2014 Farm Bill Logs National Forests for Bioenergy
– December 17, 2014, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that more than 200,000 tons of biomass were removed from federal lands through the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). BCAP, reauthorized by the 2014 Farm Bill, provided incentives for the removal of dead or diseased trees from National Forests and Bureau of…
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Minnesota Ethanol Plant Fined $25K for Air Pollution and Noise
– December 11, 2014, Associated Press The Corn Plus ethanol plant in the south-central Minnesota city of Winnebago has agreed to pay a $25,000 penalty and take steps to reduce its air pollution and noise levels. The corrective actions announced by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on Wednesday mark the latest step by officials to bring…
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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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So-Called Conservation Groups Betray Environmental Movement
– by Howie Wolke, December 11, 2014, Wilderness Watch My name is Howie Wolke and I live in the foothills of the Gallatin Range in southern Montana just north of Yellowstone National Park, about a mile from the greater Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Complex. I’ve been a wilderness guide/outfitter for backpacking and canoe trips since 1978. I am…
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Tampa Man Sentenced for $3 Million Biofuels Fraud
– by Susan Salisbury, December 9, 2014, Palm Beach Post A Tampa man was sentenced today on charges he scammed investors out of more than $3 million after promising returns on bio-energy crops such as camelina that were not even planted William A. Vasden Jr. who once headed the Florida Feedstock Growers Association, was sentenced…
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Windfarms More Efficient than Biofuels?
– by Aidan Harrison, December 5, 2014, Northumberland Gazette Its obsession with ‘markets’ has already placed our railways and utilities in the hands of big foreign state and corporate-owned monopolies. The first thing to make clear is that the technology of wind power is nothing like as inefficient as its fanatical detractors claim. In terms of…
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December issue of Energy Justice Now | Celebrating 16 Victories for Clean Air in 2014!
Never fear, the December issue of Energy Justice Now — the national forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance — is here! energyjustice.net Inside this issue: Celebrating 16 Victories for Clean Air in 2014! – 16 Victories for Clean Air – From Shock to Victory: The Planet’s “Immune System” at Work – Incinerator in Frederick, MD Canceled After Decade-Long Fight …and more! Please…
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