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220,000 acres of Colorado’s White River National Forest to be Logged for Biomass Energy
Demand for biomass energy in Colorado will require logging in 220,000 acres of the White River National Forest. -Ed. – by Allen Best, March 6, 2014. Source: Mountain Town News For most of the last decade, Coloradans have been talking about how to make good use of their mountain forests, dying and gray. Something is finally…
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UK Biomass Project Halted, Developer Blames “erosion of support” for Biomass
UK biomass project halted, developer blames “erosion of support” for biomass – by Nina Chestney, March 7, 2014. Source: Reuters Renewable energy developer RES has stopped a 300-million-pound ($500 million) project to build a biomass plant in Northumberland, northeast England, due to what it called inconsistent government subsidies. The 100-megawatt (MW) plant was scheduled to be…
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Judith Johnsrud
OBITUARY FOR DR. JUDITH H. JOHNSRUD July 1, 1931 – March 9, 2014 Judith H. Johnsrud of State College, PA, a highly-respected hero to opponents of nuclear energy in the United States and around the world, was born July 1, 1931, and grew up in Hammond, Indiana. As a teenager Judy, as she was known…
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DC’s Waste and Environmental Racism
Few in our nation’s capitol city think twice when they throw stuff “away” — nor do they think about who lives where “away” is. Fitting a national trend of environmental racism, it should be no surprise that DC’s waste has long impacted communities of color in one of the most segregated metropolitan areas in the country.…
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Maryland’s Dirty “Renewable Energy” Bills
Downloads RPS Cleanup Flyer RPS Cleanup Powerpoint presentation Taking Out the Trash: Why we should immediately remove trash incineration from the RPS How does Trash Incineration compare to Landfilling and Coal? Maryland’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) is one of the nation’s dirtiest renewable energy mandates. Over the lifetime of this mandate, the majority of…
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Race, Class and the proposed Cove Point, Maryland – LNG Terminal
While being a very bad idea, the proposed LNG terminal at Cove Point Maryland does not appear to be a blantant case of race or class based discrimination in its location. I use JusticeMap.org (beta) to analyze the proposed location. You can see that the income for the immediate census tract is actually higher than the more distant ones,…
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New Law Will Make Biomass Heating Cheaper in Massachusetts
– by Shira Schoenberg, December 1, 2014, Mass Live A new law that goes into effect in January will make it cheaper to use renewable energy to heat a home – and could provide a boost to the wood industry in rural parts of Western Massachusetts. “This is going to help (renewable) technologies compete with and…
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Commercial Use of Wood Energy is Heating Up
– by Michael Mccord, November 26, 2014, New Hampshire Business Review New Hampshire’s recently released 10-year energy strategy acknowledged an ongoing fact of life for the state’s commercial and residential sectors: New Hampshire imports 100 percent of its fossil fuels and natural gas. According to the NH Wood Energy Council, New Hampshire pays more than $1…
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Obama’s New Year’s Resolution? More Fracking.
The 2014 US Climate Action Report to the United Nations is out. The official line from the White House is celebrating how the US is going to meet the 2009 Copenhagen greenhouse gas emissions commitment. However, we read the fine print and here is Barack Obama’s fracking plan for electricity generation in 2020: “Natural gas-fired…
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Mapping Race and Income – JusticeMap.org (BETA)
JusticeMap.org (BETA) is an exciting new initiative to map race and income at a very high level of resolution for the entire United States. We’re using data from the 2010 Census (race) and American Community Survey (income) and some software (TileMill) to create a series of map layers. The project is supported by the Sunlight Foundation. https://www.justicemap.org/…
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