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Rim Fire Forests Fuel Biomass Energy
– December 29, 2014, The Recorder Nearly 40,000 tons of forest residue from the Rim Fire area in Tuolumne County has been removed for use to generate biomass energy, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. Meanwhile,…
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Biofuel Hell
– by Richard Adrian Reese, February 17, 2013, Wild Ancestors I keep having nightmares about one possible future: biofuel hell. Clearly, they are visions sent by ancestral spirits, and they are meant to be shared. Perhaps…
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Will Energy Storage Plus Solar Inspire Customers to Abandon Utilities?
– by Lisa Cohn, February 28, 2014, Energy Efficiency Markets To hear the Rocky Mountain Institute tell the story, it’s not a question of whether utility customers will start defecting from their utilities in favor of…
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Destruction of Demand: How to Shrink Our Energy Footprint
– by Richard Heinberg, November 4, 2014, Post Carbon Institute The human economy is currently too big to be sustainable. We know this because Global Footprint Network, which methodically tracks the relevant data, informs us that humanity…
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Questions of Reliability at Gainesville, Florida’s Biomass Generator Raises Concerns
– December 17, 2014, Before It’s News In December 2013, the GREC Biomass generator was taken off-line to install noise-absorbing panels inside the main stack in an effort to quiet numerous noise complaints from residents living…
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Study Finds Ethanol Worse For Air Quality Than Gasoline
– by Bill Hudson, December 17, 2014, CBS Minnesota For years, the state’s corn and ethanol industries have touted the environmental benefits of burning the alternative fuel in our vehicles. But newly released research from the…
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Maryland “Zero-Waste” Plan Draws Fire Over Inclusion of Incineration
– by Timothy B. Wheeler, December 15, 2014, The Baltimore Sun With Marylanders throwing away far more trash per person than the average American, the O’Malley administration released a long-range plan Monday to virtually eliminate placing…
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2014 Farm Bill Logs National Forests for Bioenergy
– December 17, 2014, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that more than 200,000 tons of biomass were removed from federal lands through the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). BCAP, reauthorized by…
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Minnesota Ethanol Plant Fined $25K for Air Pollution and Noise
– December 11, 2014, Associated Press The Corn Plus ethanol plant in the south-central Minnesota city of Winnebago has agreed to pay a $25,000 penalty and take steps to reduce its air pollution and noise levels.…
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