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Construction & Demolition Debris (C&D): Deconstruction, not Demolition!
Construction and Demolition (C&D) Debris, sometimes described as Construction, Demolition & Disaster (CDD) Debris, is a large waste stream that contains many valuable materials. However, when buildings are simply demolished, that is a lot of waste that ends up in landfills or (even worse) incinerators. Many jobs can be created reusing and recycling used building…
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Energy Justice Network – 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 makes available information that is the product of our own research and writing, but also makes available the works of others. The following applies to our own materials:…
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Waste Database
The searchable database below allows users to determine which facilities their municipal solid waste (MSW) ends up in. Knowing this crucial information empowers residents to be informed about the impact of the trash they generate. For example, if you determine that your trash is going to an incinerator (many times an example of environmental racism),…
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Are Carbon Taxes Another False Solution?
– by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network October 2014 Carbon taxes are emerging as a major top-down climate solution enviros would like to see come out of Congress. Plenty of “tax carbon” signs were present in the 400,000-strong People’s Climate March in New York City last month. Even U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging nations to…
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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 makes available information that is the product of our own research and writing, but also makes available the works of…
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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 from smokestacks at paper mills, landfills, trash, and biomass incinerators in 12 states spanning New Jersey to Wisconsin to Tennessee.…
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Families Get $4 Million For Fracking Water Contamination
In March, a federal jury awarded a total of $4.2 million to two families from Dimock, Pennsylvania whose drinking water wells have been contaminated by Cabot Oil and Gas when drilling for natural gas. “It’s been a battle,” said plaintiff Scott Ely, co-plaintiff with Ray Hubert, in a lawsuit against Cabot filed in 2009. “You’re…
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Constitution Pipeline Permit Denied
– April 22, 2016, Energy Justice Network On April 22, the New York Department of Conservation refused to issue a water quality permit for the Constitution Pipeline, a 124 mile pipeline that would’ve carried natural gas from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania to New York State. Accompanied by heavily armed U.S. Marshals wearing bulletproof vests, a Constitution…
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Maine Towns Vote Whether to Burn Trash or Make Biogas
Actually, there’s a third (and better) option and it’s called Zero Waste. – by Andy O’Brien, April 7, 2016, The Free Press On March 31, 2018, it will no longer be economical for midcoast towns to send their household trash to the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. (PERC) incinerator in Orrington. That’s the date when the facility loses…
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Energy Information Administration: Trash Incineration About Disposal, Not Energy
The federal government’s U.S. Energy Information Adminstration puts to rest the idea that “waste-to-energy” facilities exist to create electricity, instead admitting that their main function is to dispose of trash, with electricity as a byproduct. – April 6, 2016, U.S. Energy Information Administration At the end of 2015, the United States had 71 waste-to-energy (WTE)…
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