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Proposed Incinerator a Bad Choice for Island
– Linda Damas Kelley, August 6, 2014, West Hawaii Today Just having returned from a monthlong mainland trip, I found that the waste-to-energy controversy has reached a boiling point. I just read recent commentaries by Hunter…
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USDA Funds Genetic Engineering Research for Switchgrass Biofuels
– July 24, 2014, Farmers’ Advance Michigan State University (MSU) plant biologist C. Robin Buell has been awarded $1 million from a joint U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program to accelerate…
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Chester, PA Residents Air Concerns over Covanta Trash Incineration Plan
UPDATE: despite strong organizing efforts, an outpouring of community opposition and strong research we’ve compiled to show how awful this plan is, city council voted unanimously on Aug 13th to approve Covanta’s plan that allows…
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Biomass Burning Kills 250,000 People a Year
– by Jo Nova, August 5, 2014, JoanneNova.com.au The headline at Science Daily is that wildfires and other burns lead to climate change. The paper itself asks: “As such, particle burn-off of clouds may be a major underrecognized…
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Residents Voice New Concerns on Gainesville, FL Biomass Incinerator
– by Morgan Watkins, August 5, 2014, Gainesville Sun Local residents worried about the biomass plant showed up Tuesday evening for a public meeting on its draft Title V air operation permit, which could be approved…
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Residents Voice New Concerns on Gainesville, FL Biomass Incinerator
– by Morgan Watkins, August 5, 2014, Gainesville Sun Local residents worried about the biomass plant showed up Tuesday evening for a public meeting on its draft Title V air operation permit, which could be approved…
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USDA Splurges Millions on Biomass Power Incinerators
[More taxpayer money funding private corporations to log National Forests under the unscientific guise of “wildfire prevention.” -Ed.] – US Department of Agriculture, July 23, 2014, Office of Communications Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that…
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Behind the Colorado Fracking Betrayal
– by Joel Dyer, August 7, 2014, Boulder Weekly So what went wrong with ballot measures 88 and 89? How could these popular citizen’s initiatives written to give local communities more control over drilling and fracking…
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Forest Thinning Will Increase Wildfire Risk
– by Charles Thomas, The Oregonian As fires again rage across the West, senators from John McCain, R-Ariz., to Ron Wyden, D-Ore., echo the refrain “thin the forests” to prevent wildfires. Unfortunately, most of the advocated…
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2014: The Year of the Smokestack Smackdown [Energy Justice Now, August 2014]
Prepare yourself for the August issue of Energy Justice Network’s new publication, Energy Justice Now! – “2014 a Banner Year for Victories” – “Derailing NYC Trash Train in Chester, PA” – “Vermont Yankee: Out of the Fission and Into the Fire?”…
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