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Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula
Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula Government agencies and policymakers have long turned a deaf ear to concerns with human health threats from biomass incineration. A new experimental study underway on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula may ultimately compel elected officials to act to protect public health from biomass incineration, while serving as a model…
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How to Stop a Biomass Incinerator
How to Stop a Biomass Incinerator – by People for Clean Mountains On July 22, 2013 the Transylvania County, North Carolina Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 to enact a one year moratorium on the development and permitting of any biomass facility producing any output. This was the culmination of four months of effort by the citizens…
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Australia to Reverse Ban on Native Forest Incineration
Australia to Reverse Ban on Native Forest Incineration – by Jenny Weber, Huon Valley Environment Centre Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state government has announced plans to allow native forests to be logged and burnt for electricity generation. Removing a ban on burning native forest wood for electricity would give a green light for the…
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Biomass Carpetbaggers
Biomass Carpetbaggers – by Tom Tolg, August 20, 2013. Source: The Recorder If Editor Blagg’s pro-biomass column was a meal I’d say it was a thin gruel of tainted leftovers along with a fruit salad loaded with sour grapes. Leaving the dinner table, we stumble onto “carpetbaggers” who Mr. Blagg identifies with the anti-biomass folks. If you…
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New York Biomass Incinerator Awaits $100 Million Handout
New York Biomass Incinerator Awaits $100 Million Handout August 17, 2013, Source: Mid Hudson News Network The Taylor Biomass waste-to-energy project has had the support of U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-Cold Spring, since his candidacy for Congress last year. The Orange County facility is awaiting a $100 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy…
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Gainesville, FL Biomass Settlement Offer Would Alter Contract with City
Gainesville, FL Biomass Settlement Offer Would Alter Contract with City – by Christopher Curry, August 15, 2013. Source: The Gainesville Sun The biomass plant company has sent Gainesville its terms for dropping a $50 million arbitration counterclaim and some city officials say the terms are unacceptable. The Gainesville Renewable Energy Center seeks no money to settle. Instead,…
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Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Proposal Loses Major Partner
Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Proposal Loses Major Partner – by Warren Johnston, August 11, 2013. Source: Valley News [For more information on this facility please read “Cellulosic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand“] Mascoma Corp., the Lebanon-based developer of cutting-edge biofuels technology, has lost its major partner in a proposed $233 million ethanol plant in Michigan. Although Mascoma did not…
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ANTI-BIOMASS CAMPAIGN CALL RECORDING & NOTES: “Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Carbon Standards for Biomass Industry” (August 2013)
Anti-Biomass Incineration Campaign – National Conference Call Notes Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 3pm EST Topic: “Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Carbon Standards for Biomass Industry” – What does the recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision (Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA) mean for the future of industrial-scale biomass incineration in the U.S.? Guest Speaker:…
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Timber Industry Distorts Information to Exploit Our Forests
Timber Industry Distorts Information to Exploit Our Forests – by Samantha Chirillo, July 11, 2013. Source: Register-Guard Swanson supposedly states just the facts regarding Oregon’s forests and industry, but instead distorts them. Swanson is connected to the Swanson Group, a family that owns mills dependent on public timber. Her bias may be expected, but her…
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Biofuel Program could Invite Giant Grass Invasion
Biofuel Program could Invite Giant Grass Invasion – by John Upton, July 2013. Source: Grist Here’s another environmental incentive to ditch the car: That gas you buy at the pump could soon be helping towering invasive grasses wreak havoc on America’s ecosystems. The EPA recently approved the use of giant reed and napier grass as biofuel ingredients…
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