-
Ethanol Plant at Buffalo Lake, MN Cited
– April 14, 2014. Source: KDUZ/KARP St. Paul, Minn.– The ethanol plant in Buffalo Lake formerly owned by Minnesota Energy is in the process of correcting water and air quality permit violations, and must pay a $10,000 civil penalty, according to an agreement with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). In October 2012, Renville County officials…
-
Incinerators are NOT “waste-to-energy” facilities
Note to Journalists and Activists:Incinerators are NOT “waste-to-energy” facilities Words Mean Things Any journalist seeking to be accurate and objective should never call an incinerator a “waste-to-energy” facility. Journalists and environmentalists should not spread the confusion by repeating this public relations term. The term “waste-to-energy incinerator” should be replaced with simply “incinerator” or “[waste type]…
-
A New Kind of Pipeline…for CO2?
[Pipelines aren’t just for fossil fuels anymore. -Ed.] – by Russell Hubbard, April 12, 2014. Source: Omaha World-Herald A Wyoming oil company told Nebraska ethanol producers Friday that a $1 billion carbon dioxide pipeline across the state would mean up to $50 million a year in new revenue for them. Scott Hornafius, president of Elk Petroleum,…
-
USDA Announces Release of Report Charting Path to Commercialization of Cellulosic Nanomaterials
– by Lynn L. Bergeson, November 26, 2014, JD Supra Business Advisor On November 24, 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has released a report that details the pathway to commercializing affordable, renewable, and biodegradable cellulose nanomaterials from trees. The report, entitled Cellulose Nanomaterials — A Path Towards…
-
Soil Erosion May Get Us Before Climate Change Does
– by Richard Reese, December 1, 2014, Resilience Outside the entrance of the glorious Hall of Western History are the marble lions, colorful banners, and huge stone columns. Step inside, and the popular exhibits include ancient Egypt, classical Greece, the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, Gutenberg, Magellan, Columbus, Galileo, and so on. If we cut a hole…
-
Bioenergy Pipelines?
– August 14, 2014, Waste Management World [The latest bad idea coming out of the polluting bioenergy industry.] A scientist at the University of Alberta, Canada is research to determine whether it’s effective to use pipelines to transport agricultural waste used in biofuels. According to the university, Mahdi Vaezi, a PhD student in the Faculty of Engineering,…
-
Bioenergy Corporation to Cut and Burn Public Forests in Washington
– by Kate Prengaman, October 29, 2014 Yakima Herald-Republic Scientists are searching for the fuels of the future in high-tech laboratories around the world, but last week one research team debuted its new technology at a wood-chipping plant tucked in the forest outside Cle Elum. That’s because their technology runs on wood chips. Roasting the wood,…
-
Biomass Energy Drives Wood Shortage in Nova Scotia
– Rachel Brighton, October 10, 2014, The Chronicle Herald [More evidence of biomass energy competing for limited wood source.] Opening up long-term access to western Crown lands will relieve some of the pressure that has been building in the forestry sector this year. This week the province announced that 16 sawmills and manufacturers had been granted…
-
Energy Justice Now: A Forum for Dirty Energy Opponents
Since 1999, Energy Justice Network has worked with communities across the U.S. to oppose every kind of dirty energy facility — from coal and natural-gas fired plants, to nuclear reactors, to biomass and trash incinerators — to protect human health and the natural world that keeps us alive. While countless pollution pushers have been run…
-
NEW STUDY: Air Pollution Good for Lungs
HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY! – by Fiske Sterling, April 1, 2014. Source: TBN News A new study out of Miskatonic University in Rhode Island has concluded that air pollution, specifically particulate matter, can repair damaged lung tissue. The scientific consensus up until this point had been that particulate matter — the byproduct of combustion from…
EJ Communities Map
We are mapping all of the existing, proposed, closed and defeated dirty energy and waste facilities in the US. We are building a network of community groups to fight the facilities and the corporations behind them.
Our Network
ActionPA
EJnet
Corporations
Justice Map
Spatial Justice Test