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Send Caroline to Annapolis!
With the passage of Senate Bill 690 during Maryland’s 2011 Legislative Session, Maryland started on the path of becoming the Trash Capital of the U.S. This needs to stop, and we need your help. Legislators need to hear from voices that represent the interests of Maryland residents, not from paid lobbyists and state agencies who…
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2014 Victories in Review
2014 Victories in Review In our most exciting year yet, grassroots campaigns that we’ve started or supported have won 16 victories, mostly against biomass and waste incinerators, though some were pro-active policies or other facilities (landfills or gas-fired power plants). This brings the total number of incinerator victories in our network to about 50 just…
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Allentown, PA Kills Controversial Waste Incinerator Proposal
– by Emily Opilo, October 1, 2014, McClatchy-Tribune Regional News More than two years after the deal’s controversial approval, Allentown has terminated its contract with Delta Thermo Energy, ending speculation about whether the company would ever build a proposed waste-to-energy facility in the city. In a letter dated Sept. 26, Allentown solicitor Jerry Snyder wrote that Bucks…
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DC Passes Styrofoam Ban and must Plan for Zero Waste!
Since January, we’ve been working to help get two bills passed in DC City Council, both of which passed unanimously on July 14th, 2014! Several aspects of the bills were made stronger through our efforts. The most exciting parts of these bills include: The two bills that passed are the “Sustainable DC Omnibus Act of…
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Trash Incineration is the Most Expensive Way to Make Energy
The variable operations and maintenance (O&M) costs are as follows: Variable O&M costs include fuel and other consumable materials and supplies; raw water; waste and wastewater disposal expenses; purchased power (incurred inversely to operating hours), demand charges and related utilities; chemicals, catalysts and gases; ammonia for selective catalytic reduction (SCR), as applicable; and lubricants. Source: “Updated…
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Zero Waste Hierarchy
Printable PDF version Zero Waste Hierarchy (short, sweet version): RedesignReduceSource Separate: (reusables, recycling, composting and trash) Zero Waste Hierarchy (in more detail): The landfill management aspects are nuanced because it’s critical to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions from landfills are avoided, unlike how landfills are commonly managed today. For a full appreciation of the need…
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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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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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High-Grade Wood Going to Nova Scotia Biomass Incinerator
– by Tom Ayer , May 12, 2014, Source: Cape Breton Bureau Photo: Erin Pottie, Cape Breton Bureau Top stories in Halifax Business owners in Cape Breton who rely on the forest for a living say high-quality hardwoods are making their way into Nova Scotia Power’s biomass plant in Point Tupper, consuming a wood supply that…
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220,000 acres of Colorado’s White River National Forest to be Logged for Biomass Energy
Demand for biomass energy in Colorado will require logging in 220,000 acres of the White River National Forest. -Ed. – by Allen Best, March 6, 2014. Source: Mountain Town News For most of the last decade, Coloradans have been talking about how to make good use of their mountain forests, dying and gray. Something is finally…
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