Category: Uncategorized
-
Biomass Health Study a Smokescreen?
A study on the health risks from a biomass power incinerator proposed for Placer County, California contains “several fallacies,” according to Norma Kreilein, MD, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. A Health Impact Assessment of the Proposed Cabin Creek Biomass Energy Facility in Placer County, California claims that the construction of the 2.2 megawatt Cabin Creek…
-
Report: Biomass Dirtier Than Coal
Friends of the Earth (England, Wales, and Northern Ireland), Greenpeace, and the UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds denounce burning trees for electricity as a greater threat to the climate over the coming decades than burning coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, in a report released in November. The report, Dirtier Than Coal: Why Government plans to subsidise…
-
Medical Doctors Brief Congress on Biomass Energy Health Hazards
Three medical doctors and a scientist presented the first-ever Congressional briefing on the health hazards of biomass incineration in the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C. on September 25, 2012. The briefing was arranged and sponsored by Save America’s Forests and the presentations can be viewed online here. Pediatricians William Sammons, M.D., of Massachusetts and Norma Kreilein, M.D., of…
-
Mercury in Waste Coal
Above chart from “Mercury and Utilities: Current Control Technologies” (7/31/2001 EPA presentation, page 6), based on EPA’s 1999 Information Collection Request (ICR) (download raw data or view their summary data in Excel. More concise summary data comparing BTU, mercury and sulfur content of coals by region available from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information…
-
Conserving Heating Fuels
Conserving Heating Fuels The upcoming winter promises to be a painful one for millions of consumers across the country. Dramatically higher prices for winter heating fuels threaten the pocketbooks of many consumers and could deliver a multi-billion dollar blow to the nation’s economy. Even in warm-weather parts of the country, rising fuel prices will have…
-
The Energy Bill Gets Worse
New York Times Published: September 29, 2003 This country needs a purposeful long-term energy strategy that reduces itsdependence on foreign oil and deals with climate change and all the otherair-quality issues that are directly related to the burning of fossil fuelslike oil and coal. So how has Congress chosen to develop such a strategy?By passing…
-
Blood for Oil: Oil & Gas Interests vs. People and the Environment
Where are oil and gas extraction connected to human rights abuses? Where isn’t it? Oil extraction is a very capital-intensive undertaking, dominated by large corporations and centralized governments, and usually requiring cooperation between the two. Often, the rights, health, and even lives of the local population are ignored, abused or assaulted.
EJ Communities Map
We are mapping all of the existing, proposed, closed and defeated dirty energy and waste facilities in the US. We are building a network of community groups to fight the facilities and the corporations behind them.
Related Projects
ActionPA
EJnet
Corporations
Race & Class Census Map