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Huge Waste Burner Plan Defeated in FL?
The controversial 41-year old Covanta Dade trash incinerator in Doral, Florida burned down in a massive 3-week long fire in February 2023. Ever since, Miami-Dade County has been hell-bent on building the nation’s largest waste incinerator to replace it. This 4,000 ton/day burner would have been located in one of four communities of color in…
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Nuisance Lawsuit against Covanta Plymouth Renewable Energy trash incinerator
2:20-cv-04330-HB Lloyd v. Covanta Plymouth Renewable Energy, LLCHARVEY BARTLE, III, presidingDate filed: 09/03/2020Date of last filing: 04/01/2021 Doc.No. Dates Description 1 Filed & Entered: 09/03/2020 Complaint (IFP or Government Plaintiff) Filed & Entered: 09/09/2020 Summons Issued 2 Filed & Entered: 09/10/2020 APPLICATION for Admission Pro Hac Vice (Credit Card) 3 Filed & Entered: 09/10/2020…
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No waste burning in Albany County, NY!
Albany County, NY is home to many waste burning threats. Years ago, Albany City hosted the notorious ANSWERS trash incinerator, a controversial case of environmental racism. That incinerator has been closed since 1995. However, the county also hosts four sewage sludge incinerators (two still operating, and being phased out and replaced with anaerobic digesters), and…
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Baltimore Passes Local Clean Air Act!
Our years of work in Baltimore are paying off! On March 7, 2019, the Baltimore’s Mayor Pugh signed into law our Baltimore Clean Air Act. This is the culmination of years of work to close the highly polluting waste incinerators in the city. It’s also a new phase in our ongoing work to transition Baltimore…
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Mapping Change in Median Household Income
I recently updated the Income Layer on Justice Map to use the latest 2011-2015 American Community Survey data. You can view the data by county or by census tract (roughly 4000 people). While census tracts provide higher resolution that helps us identify areas of environmental injustice, unfortunately the confidence interval is much larger. So there is a…
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DC Council: Reject the Covanta Waste Contract
Learn more about DC’s connection to Lorton in this article on DC’s Waste and Environmental Racism July 6, 2015: Letter from 20 environmental, business, health and civil rights organizations opposing the Covanta waste incineration contract July 7, 2015: Letter from American Lung Association to City Council July 8-9, 2015: Covanta’s letter to council and our…
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RWE Drops Biomass Power, Adds Biomass Thermal, Wind
– by Anna Simet, March 12, 2015, Biomass Magazine While RWE Group reported it achieved its earnings targets for 2014 and EBITDA was significantly better than planned, low electricity prices and unusually mild weather negatively affected business performance, which dropped 25 percent from 2013 to 2014. Peter Terium, CEO of RWE, said that currently, 35 to 45…
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New York Republicans Trying to Slip Pricey Biofuels Mandate into Budget
– by Fredric U. Dicker, March 2, 2015, New York Post With a bitter-cold winter and skyrocketing heating oil use, the GOP’s timing couldn’t be worse. Senate Republicans, under pressure from maverick supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis, are trying to slip a “green biofuels” mandate into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new budget that could add $150 million a…
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Canadian Incineration Presentation
Report on incinerator presentation before conference of Canadian municipal officialsby Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network & Zero Waste Canada On Feb 12th, 2015, I presented at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Sustainable Communities Conference in London, Ontario. It was the first time they held a panel to present both sides of a polarized issue. The…
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