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Crayola: Burning Plastic Markers is NOT Recycling!
Click to take action! In 2012, a group of elementary school students started a Crayola: Make Your Mark! petition calling for Crayola to “make sure these markers don’t end up in our landfills, incinerators and…
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Energy Justice Network – Intellectual Property / Creative Commons License for Use
Intellectual Property & Creative Commons License for Use [NOTE: Simply linking to any part of our website, unless we specifically inform you otherwise, is permitted and welcome, with no permission required.] The Energy Justice Network…
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Our first victory of 2017! Hazardous waste incinerator defeated in the heart of gasland.
On March 29th, 2017, a rural township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, passed a local clean air law based on one we drafted for them in June 2016. It may be the first in the country…
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Pennsylvania College Students Tell Wolf: No New Pipelines, Green Jobs Now
On Monday, students from 19 Pennsylvania colleges and universities delivered a statement to Governor Tom Wolf’s Capitol office demanding no new natural gas pipelines and immediate investment in green jobs. The students are attending Pennsylvania…
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Environmental Justice and Your Block
We wanted to create a visualization that shows how income varies by block to facilitate community environmental justice organizing. In some neighborhoods there are major differences between blocks, and these differences are used by corporations…
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Trash Incineration and Climate Change: Debunking EPA Misinformation
Trash incineration is incredibly bad for the climate, releasing 2.5 times as much carbon dioxide CO2 to make the same amount of electricity as a coal power plant. This is evidenced by national data compiled…
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Incinerator Victory in Muncy, Pennsylvania!
Just in time for the holidays, residents of the rural town of Muncy, PA just had their local borough council pass into law a set-back distance ordinance we wrote. It prohibits any new facilities requiring a state…
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Where U.S. Energy Comes From:
Want to know where U.S. energy currently comes from? Check out this new series of charts we just updated, based on data through August 2016, with projections for all of 2016. Find all of them…
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Maryland, Maryland, Quite Contrary-land
Since 2011, Maryland has been notorious for being the only state to classify trash as equivalent to wind power in a renewable energy mandate. Over half of the “renewable” energy used to meet the mandate still comes…
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.
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