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One Bin for All?
– by Melanie Scruggs, Texas Campaign for the Environment Right now, the City of Houston is expanding its two-bin or “single-stream” recycling program to finally cover all the nearly 350,000 homes that it services. As an avid zero waster, you may be thinking two things: 1. It is fantastic that Houstonians finally have access to a…
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Green Crony Capitalism: Oregon’s Governor and the Grifter(s)
– by Michael Donnelly, February 13, 2015, Salem News Oregon’s Governor-for-Life John Kitzhaber, 68, resigned Friday the 13th. His resignation letter was the usual lawyerly-parsed, blame-the-media/take no responsibility sham we’re used to seeing. He had been governor from 1995-2003 and again from 2011 until now. The basic allegations which forced the rest of the state’s Democratic…
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Ohio Bioenergy Corporation Owes Over $50K in Taxes, Fees
– by David E. Malloy, December 29, 2014, Herald Dispatch Biomass, a Kentucky-based company that owns the former South Point Ethanol property adjacent to The Point industrial park, will have to pay more than $53,000 in back taxes, penalties and costs by Jan. 27 to maintain the 78-acre parcel. Lawrence County Prosecuting Attorney Brigham Anderson filed…
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Out of the Garbage Can and Into the Fire
– by Mike Ewall So-called “waste-to-energy” (WTE) is usually a euphemism for trash incineration, disposing of waste while making modest amounts of electricity and sometimes steam for heating purposes. Now, waste-to-fuels (WTF?) — turning waste into liquid fuels for transportation — is starting to emerge as a subset of WTE. Noting their acronym problem, the…
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New Report Urges Western Governments to Reconsider Reliance on Biofuels
– by Justin Gillis, January 28, 2015, New York Times Western governments have made a wrong turn in energy policy by supporting the large-scale conversion of plants into fuel and should reconsider that strategy, according to a new report from a prominent environmental think tank. Turning plant matter into liquid fuel or electricity is so inefficient that the…
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Biomass Destruction Entirely Predictable
– by Matt Miller and Raymond Plouride, February 4, 2015, Chronicle Herald In a Jan. 9 story about damage to our forests as a result of the need to feed the giant new Nova Scotia Power biomass generator in Port Hawkesbury (“Biomass project raising green concerns”), Associate Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Allan Eddy suggested that…
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Send Caroline to Annapolis!
With the passage of Senate Bill 690 during Maryland’s 2011 Legislative Session, Maryland started on the path of becoming the Trash Capital of the U.S. This needs to stop, and we need your help. Legislators need to hear from voices that represent the interests of Maryland residents, not from paid lobbyists and state agencies who…
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Dirt Cheap Clean Energy? | January issue of Energy Justice Now
Just in time, the January issue of Energy Justice Now — the national forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance — is here! Inside this issue: Dirt Cheap Clean Energy – Dirt Cheap Clean Energy – Energy Storage and Solar Inspiring Customers to Drop Utilities? – Destruction of Demand: How to Shrink Our Energy Footprint …and more! Please share the January 2015 issue of Energy…
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Dirt Cheap Clean Energy
The most exciting news is coming sooner than I expected. The moment where the biggest fights become where to put all of the wind and solar, rather than having to endlessly fight off plans for nuclear, coal, oil, or gas power plants, or biomass or waste incinerators. The lines are already crossing. These are the…
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Concerns About Syracuse, NY Trash Incinerator Pollution
– January 6, 2015, LocalSYR It’s the next step to allow trash from Cortland County to be brought into Onondaga County’s Waste to Energy facility. Both counties’ legislatures this week have held public hearings on the so called “Ash for Trash” plan. For two decades now Onondaga County’s Waste to Energy facility has been burning trash only…
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