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Military Forests to Fuels in Oregon
– by Chris Zinda, Counterpunch Goose Lake is 26 miles long and 9 miles wide, extending from south central Oregon and into northeastern California where the two meet with Nevada. The lake used to support an…
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Mapping Change in Median Household Income
I recently updated the Income Layer on Justice Map to use the latest 2011-2015 American Community Survey data. You can view the data by county or by census tract (roughly 4000 people). While census tracts provide higher…
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Doctor’s Orders: Wood Burning Hazardous to Your Health
– by Dr. Brian Moench, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment Civilization orchestrates the curbing of one person’s freedoms for the protection of others and the greater good. When two people’s freedoms are mutually exclusive,…
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Study: Thinning Forests for Bioenergy Can Worsen Climate
A new study out of the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon concludes that selectively logging or “thinning” forests for bioenergy can increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and exacerbate climate change. The…
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Biomass Power Facilities Idle for Months
One of biomass energy’s main selling points is that it’s a baseload source of energy available 24/7, unlike solar and wind. Despite these promises–and hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies, grants and loans–several…
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Compost Chicken Manure, Don’t Burn It
– by Mike Ewall, December 19, 2014, Baltimore Sun Dan Rodricks’ recent column urged the new governor to get a large-scale poultry waste incinerator built on the Eastern Shore (“Larry Hogan has a chance to be…
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Biomass Energy Growing Pains
Several biomass power facilities have come online over the last few years in Colorado, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida, and Hawaii, but not without difficulties, including fires, inefficient equipment, lawsuits, and competing with the low price of…
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Environmental Justice in Virginia
Lorton, Virginia is one of the state’s most stark cases of environmental injustice. Lorton hosts three landfills, a sewage sludge incinerator and one of the largest and dirtiest trash incinerators in the nation. Covanta Fairfax…
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DC United Soccer Stadium site – Toxic Contamination Documents
Zoning Case 16-02 A Resolution from ANC Regarding the DC United Consolidated PUD – 10-17-16 Community Health and Safety Study (CHASS) (70 pp; Aug 2016) – conducted by the District Department of Health to look…
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Water Abuse in the Fracking Process
– by Alex Lotorto, Energy Justice Network Water is used in shale gas development from cradle to grave, however, most people don’t think about it beyond the issues of groundwater contamination. Procuring and bringing raw…
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