Fighting for Clean Energy and Zero Waste
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Biomass Combustion: Harmful on any Scale
– by Cathy Baiton, Only Clean Air In the same way that industrial biomass combustion can seriously jeopardize public health and the environment in communities, residential and smaller-scale commercial biomass burning also have adverse impacts on…
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Energy Justice Now – A Forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance [June 2014]
Check out the inaugural June 2014 issue of Energy Justice Network’s new publication, Energy Justice Now! In the June issue of Energy Justice Now (a forum for the dirty energy resistance): -“Why Solidarity is Needed More Than Ever between Coal,…
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On the Dirty Energy Policy Front
by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network While Energy Justice Network’s work is mainly focused on helping you win grassroots victories, we’ve had to weigh in on some state and national policies that would have major…
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Why Solidarity is Needed More than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incinerator Fighters
– by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network Most progress in stopping polluting energy and waste industries is accomplished by grassroots activism, stopping one project at a time. Many assume that grassroots groups are “NIMBY” types…
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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…
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Biomass and Gas Incinerator Proposed for Vermont Yankee Nuke Site
– by Mike Faher, June 3, 2014, Brattleboro Reformer Selectboard members are touting the potential benefits of new biomass power plant — with the possibility of a natural-gas component — that could be built at the…
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Half the Wood for New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator from Out of State
– by Chris Jensen, May 23, 2014, New Hampshire Public Radio About 51 percent of the wood purchased for the new Burgess BioPower biomass plant in Berlin during its first two months of operation came from…
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Baltimore Residents Face Potential Risks from New Incinerator
– by Jaisal Noor, May 27, 2014, The Real News VIDEO HERE JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: This is Baltimore’s Benjamin Franklin High. Will a the country’s largest incinerator, being built just one mile from here, endanger…
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Hazardous Waste is Not Clean, Renewable Energy
– by Lisa Wozniak, June 2, 2014, Lansing News People in politics tell a lot of “success” stories, but one that can be substantiated is the rise of clean, renewable energy in Michigan. Thanks to a…
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Maryland adopting pro-burn zero waste plan; enviros object to it
Maryland has proposed an ambitious zero waste plan to reduce, reuse, recycle, compost and burn its waste.Something is wrong with this picture… burning isn’t part of real zero waste programs! Our comments oppose incineration and demonstrate that Maryland does NOT have…
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