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One Bin for All?
– by Melanie Scruggs, Texas Campaign for the Environment Right now, the City of Houston is expanding its two-bin or “single-stream” recycling program to finally cover all the nearly 350,000 homes that it services. As an…
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Green Crony Capitalism: Oregon’s Governor and the Grifter(s)
– by Michael Donnelly, February 13, 2015, Salem News Oregon’s Governor-for-Life John Kitzhaber, 68, resigned Friday the 13th. His resignation letter was the usual lawyerly-parsed, blame-the-media/take no responsibility sham we’re used to seeing. He had been…
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Out of the Garbage Can and Into the Fire
– by Mike Ewall So-called “waste-to-energy” (WTE) is usually a euphemism for trash incineration, disposing of waste while making modest amounts of electricity and sometimes steam for heating purposes. Now, waste-to-fuels (WTF?) — turning waste…
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Zero Waste to Landfill: How Incinerators Get Promoted
– by Caroline Eader The incinerator industry promotes a false belief that the only choices we have in handling our waste is to either burn it for energy or to bury it in a landfill.…
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Biofuels Company Won’t Pay State of Mississippi After Bankruptcy
– January 10, 2015, Fuel Fix Bankrupt biofuel maker KiOR and controlling shareholder Vinod Khosla say the state of Mississippi is using legal tactics in an attempt to squeeze money from the company. KiOR, based in…
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New Report Urges Western Governments to Reconsider Reliance on Biofuels
– by Justin Gillis, January 28, 2015, New York Times Western governments have made a wrong turn in energy policy by supporting the large-scale conversion of plants into fuel and should reconsider that strategy, according to…
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Biomass Destruction Entirely Predictable
– by Matt Miller and Raymond Plouride, February 4, 2015, Chronicle Herald In a Jan. 9 story about damage to our forests as a result of the need to feed the giant new Nova Scotia Power…
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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…
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Dirt Cheap Clean Energy? | January issue of Energy Justice Now
Just in time, the January issue of Energy Justice Now — the national forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance — is here! Inside this issue: Dirt Cheap Clean Energy – Dirt Cheap Clean Energy – Energy Storage and Solar Inspiring…
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Dirt Cheap Clean Energy
The most exciting news is coming sooner than I expected. The moment where the biggest fights become where to put all of the wind and solar, rather than having to endlessly fight off plans for…
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