Fighting for Clean Energy and Zero Waste
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Biomass Industry Needs to Prepare for Water Constraints
– by Phil Ciciora, March 5, 2014. Source: University of Illinois News Office Debates surrounding the sustainability of bioenergy have emerged in recent years relating to water quality and quantity, and those debates will only grow…
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Biofuel Producer Warns of Default, Bankruptcy
– by Christopher Martin, March 18, 2014. Source: Bloomberg Businessweek [Read more about Khosla: Cellulosic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand -Ed.] Kior Inc. (KIOR:US), the Vinod Khosla-backed operator of the first U.S. commercial-scale cellulosic biofuel plant, fell the most on…
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Genetically Engineered Trees as Biofuel Feedstock
[Now that corn ethanol has fallen out of favor politically, the bioenergy industry will be focusing more and more on forests.] – by Alex Maragos, November 28, 2014, WLFI Ethanol made from corn already powers millions…
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220,000 acres of Colorado’s White River National Forest to be Logged for Biomass Energy
Demand for biomass energy in Colorado will require logging in 220,000 acres of the White River National Forest. -Ed. – by Allen Best, March 6, 2014. Source: Mountain Town News For most of the last decade,…
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UK Biomass Project Halted, Developer Blames “erosion of support” for Biomass
UK biomass project halted, developer blames “erosion of support” for biomass – by Nina Chestney, March 7, 2014. Source: Reuters Renewable energy developer RES has stopped a 300-million-pound ($500 million) project to build a biomass plant…
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Fanning the Northeastern Biomass Flame
[The biomass industry is teaming up with environmentalists to increase the amount of forests burned for polluting energy in the Great North Woods.] Fanning the Northeastern Biomass Flame – by Joseph Seymour, March 11, 2014.…
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UK Biomass Project Halted, Developer Blames “erosion of support” for Biomass
UK biomass project halted, developer blames “erosion of support” for biomass – by Nina Chestney, March 7, 2014. Source: Reuters Renewable energy developer RES has stopped a 300-million-pound ($500 million) project to build a biomass plant…
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Judith Johnsrud
OBITUARY FOR DR. JUDITH H. JOHNSRUD July 1, 1931 – March 9, 2014 Judith H. Johnsrud of State College, PA, a highly-respected hero to opponents of nuclear energy in the United States and around the…
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DC’s Waste and Environmental Racism
Few in our nation’s capitol city think twice when they throw stuff “away” — nor do they think about who lives where “away” is. Fitting a national trend of environmental racism, it should be no surprise…
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Maryland Seeking to Becomes the Nation’s Burn-Capitol
Maryland’s state legislators are at it for a four year in a row, pushing bills that would increase trash and biomass incineration in their state and region. In 2011, the state became the first, and only, to put trash…
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