Category: Blog entry
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hina’s Coal Problem
Christina Nunez National Geographic Published October 22, 2013 Choked with smog that shut down roads, schools, and its main airport, the city of Harbin (map) this week offered a striking reminder that China has a long way to go in addressing the hazards caused by its dependence on coal. Visibility in the northeastern city of…
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New York is getting brighter!
By: Kristofer Settle Nov 2, 2013 Source: the energy collective The streets of New York City will be a little brighter (literally) over the next few years. Last week NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced a new effort to replace the city’s current amber streetlights for white, more energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs throughout the five…
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Yosemite’s Burned Areas Are Alive
Yosemite’s Burned Areas Are Alive – by Chad Hanson, October 3, 2013. Source: Los Angeles Times It was entirely predictable. Even before the ashes have cooled on the 257,000-acre Rim fire in and around Yosemite this year, the timber industry and its allies in Congress were using the fire as an excuse for suspending environmental laws and expanding logging operations on federal land.…
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Commission Revises Archaeological Conditions for Hu Honua Bioenergy
Commission Revises Archaeological Conditions for Hu Honua Bioenergy – by Tom Callis, October 4, 2013. Source: Hawaii Tribune-Herald The Hu Honua Bioenergy project was back before the Windward Planning Commission briefly Thursday. Third Circuit Court Judge Greg Nakamura, who is handling the appeal of a contested case hearing regarding the 21.5-megawatt biomass power plant under construction near…
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Biomass Injustice
Two Biomass Injustices – by Ron Saff, M.D., October 27, 2013. Source: Gainesville Sun Turkey Creek residents face two deep injustices: health risks from air pollution and noise pollution. Tons of carcinogens will soon belch from the biomass plant. In a 2009 letter to then-Sen. John Kerry, the American Lung Association stated that biomass burning releases toxic…
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Anti-G.E. Trees Group Censored by University of Florida
Environmental group kicked off UF campus – by Jeff Schweers, October 28, 2013. Source: Gainesville Sun An environmental group that was scheduled to make a presentation on Monday at the University of Florida on genetically engineered trees was kicked off campus over the weekend and its members threatened with arrest and banned for three years. Organizers with the…
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October 2013) ANTI-BIOMASS CAMPAIGN CALL RECORDING & NOTES: “Debunking Wildfire Myths”
Anti-Biomass Incineration Campaign – National Conference Call Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 6pm EST TOPIC: “Debunking Wildfire Myths” RECORDING: Debunking Wildfire Myths – October 2013 We discuss how we can improve our advocacy about wildfire and forest practices and how those topics are inseparable from biomass incineration. What’s changing with our Western U.S. forest ecosystems,…
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(October 2013) ANTI-BIOMASS CAMPAIGN CALL RECORDING & NOTES: “Debunking Wildfire Myths”
Anti-Biomass Incineration Campaign – National Conference Call Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 6pm EST TOPIC: “Debunking Wildfire Myths” RECORDING: Debunking Wildfire Myths – October 2013 We discuss how we can improve our advocacy about wildfire and forest practices and how those topics are inseparable from biomass incineration. What’s changing with our Western U.S. forest ecosystems,…
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USC Reaches $24 million Settlement with Developer of Closed Biomass Facility
USC Reaches $24 million Settlement with Developer of Closed Biomass Facility – by Andrew Shain, October 4, 2013. Source: Rock Hill Herald The University of South Carolina has reached a $24 million settlement with Wisconsin-based Johnson Controls over a failed biomass power plant. The agreement calls for Johnson to pay the remaining $14.4 million owed on the…
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Kentucky Biomass Incinerator would “adversely affect rate-payers”
Kentucky Biomass Incinerator Would “Adversely affect rate-payers” – By Erica Peterson, October 9, 2013 Source: Kentucky Public Radio Lexington-based ecoPower wants to build a biomass plant in Perry County. The plant would burn wood scraps to create electricity. The utility Kentucky Power wants to buy all that electricity, and the state Public Service Commission will decide whether…
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