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  • Will Energy Storage Plus Solar Inspire Customers to Abandon Utilities?

    - by Lisa Cohn, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2014, Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy Markets To hear the Rocky Moun­tain Insti­tute tell the sto­ry, it’s not a ques­tion of whether util­i­ty cus­tomers will start defect­ing from their util­i­ties in favor of off-grid solu­tions that involve ener­gy stor­age and solar ener­gy. It’s a ques­tion of when. Truth is, it’s already hap­pen­ing in Hawaii—where…

  • Destruction of Demand: How to Shrink Our Energy Footprint

    - by Richard Hein­berg, Novem­ber 4, 2014, Post Car­bon Institute The human econ­o­my is cur­rent­ly too big to be sus­tain­able. We know this because Glob­al Foot­print Net­work, which method­i­cal­ly tracks the rel­e­vant data, informs us that human­i­ty is now using 1.5 Earths’ worth of resources. We can tem­porar­i­ly use resources faster than Earth regen­er­ates them only by…

  • Air Pollution: Clean Up Our Skies

    - by Julia Schmale, Novem­ber 19, 2014, Nature In Decem­ber, the world’s atten­tion will fall on cli­mate-change nego­ti­a­tions at the 20th Unit­ed Nations Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change (UNFCCC) Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties in Lima, Peru. The empha­sis will be on reduc­ing emis­sions of long-term atmos­pher­ic dri­vers such as car­bon diox­ide, the effects of which will…

  • Keep Corporate Polluters at Bay, Please Donate Today!

    Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work is one of the few nation­al non­prof­its in the U.S. orga­niz­ing with grass­roots com­mu­ni­ties to say NO! to all forms of dirty ener­gy, from fracked gas, to coal plants, to bio­mass and waste incin­er­a­tion, to nuclear power. Over 2014, we have raised $89,700 from indi­vid­ual donors, only $10,300 away from our goal of $100,000! Will you…

  • Covanta Settles for $536,211 in Lawsuit Over Biomass Ash Testing

    -Decem­ber 11, 2014, Bak­ers­field Californian Dis­trict attor­neys from eight Cal­i­for­nia coun­ties announced Thurs­day the set­tle­ment of a civ­il envi­ron­men­tal enforce­ment action against three sub­sidiaries of a New Jer­sey-based company. The set­tle­ment cov­ers Cov­an­ta Ener­gy LLC’s Kern Coun­ty bio­mass ener­gy facil­i­ty in Delano, along with oth­er com­pa­ny facil­i­ties in Men­do­ta and Oroville. Kern Coun­ty will receive about…

  • December issue of Energy Justice Now | Celebrating 16 Victories for Clean Air in 2014!

    Nev­er fear, the Decem­ber issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now — the nation­al forum for the Dirty Ener­gy Resis­tance — is here! energyjustice.net Inside this issue: Cel­e­brat­ing 16 Vic­to­ries for Clean Air in 2014! - 16 Vic­to­ries for Clean Air -  From Shock to Vic­to­ry: The Planet’s “Immune Sys­tem” at Work -  Incin­er­a­tor in Fred­er­ick, MD Can­celed After Decade-Long Fight …and more! Please share the Decem­ber 2014 issue of Ener­gy…

  • From Shock to Victory: The Planet’s “Immune System” at Work

    - by Jan Baty, Newark Res­i­dents Against the Pow­er Plant As I saw Alex Lotor­to (cam­pus and com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­er for Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work) step out of his car, unload­ing mate­ri­als for the meet­ing he was to lead at my house, I had a flash back to how I had dis­cov­ered the Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work. In Newark…

  • Census Bureau Releases Biomass Incinerator Data

    - by Erin Voegele, Decem­ber 3, 2014, Bio­mass Mag­a­zine   The U.S. Cen­sus Bureau recent­ly released new eco­nom­ic cen­sus sta­tis­tics on renew­able ener­gy, report­ing that rev­enues for elec­tric pow­er gen­er­a­tion indus­tries that use renew­able ener­gy resources increased 49 per­cent from 2007 to 2012, reach­ing $9.8 bil­lion. In 2007, rev­enue was only $6.6 bil­lion. Bio­mass is among the…

  • October/November issue of Energy Justice Now | Where the Climate March Tripped Up

    Take a deep breath and pre­pare your­self for the Octo­ber / Novem­ber issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now, a forum for the dirty ener­gy resistance. Fos­sil Fuel Divestment - Fos­sil Fuel Divest­ment: How to Evolve the Campaign -  Are Car­bon Tax­es Anoth­er False Solution? -  Bio­mass Ener­gy: Anoth­er Kind of Cli­mate Change Denial …and more! Please share the Octo­ber /…

  • Fossil Fuel Divestment: How to Evolve the Campaign Beyond its Shortcomings

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­workOcto­ber 2014 Some­times, envi­ron­men­tal move­ment cam­paigns that become very pop­u­lar aren’t the ones that are the most strate­gic. Try­ing to divert the fos­sil fuel divest­ment band­wag­on to a bet­ter path hasn’t been easy (or well-received), but some crit­i­cal exam­i­na­tion is long overdue. As activists like to point out, we don’t have…

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