Category: Blog entry

  • Massachusetts Grants Millions to Biomass Industry

    [Millions of taxpayer dollars go to polluting biomass incineration under the guise of “clean” energy. -Ed.] –  by Anna Simet, June 5, 2014, Biomass Magazine Massachusetts has dedicated $3.5 million to nine renewable thermal projects in the state through a new grant program, the Massachusetts Renewable Thermal Business Investment Financing Program. Funds for the program are…

  • Half the Wood for New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator from Out of State

    – by Chris Jensen, May 23, 2014, New Hampshire Public Radio About 51 percent of the wood purchased for the new Burgess BioPower biomass plant in Berlin during its first two months of operation came from New Hampshire, according to a new “sustainability” report filed with the state’s Site Evaluation Committee. Thirty-five percent came from Maine. Five percent…

  • Baltimore Residents Face Potential Risks from New Incinerator

    – by Jaisal Noor, May 27, 2014, The Real News  VIDEO HERE JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: This is Baltimore’s Benjamin Franklin High. Will a the country’s largest incinerator, being built just one mile from here, endanger the health of the students at the school? The Energy Answers Fairfield Renewable Energy Project will burn 4,000 tons of…

  • Hazardous Waste is Not Clean, Renewable Energy

    – by Lisa Wozniak, June 2, 2014, Lansing News People in politics tell a lot of “success” stories, but one that can be substantiated is the rise of clean, renewable energy in Michigan. Thanks to a law passed with bipartisan support in 2008, Michigan has been challenged to generate 10 percent of its energy from renewable…

  • The Ten Commandments of Movement Solidarity

    After a decade of grassroots advocacy, my personal belief is that the greatest obstacle to positive change in the world isn’t corporations, the government, or the 1%, but lack of movement solidarity. And no, I’m not pretending to be some modern day Moses bringing the divine truths down from the mountain. I’m just someone who…

  • Dirty Wood-Heaters

    – by Dr. Dorothy Robinson, Woodsmoke.3sc.net  The most health-hazardous air pollutant is PM2.5 (tiny particles less than 2.5 millionth of a metre in diameter) that cause 10 to 20 times as many premature deaths as the next worst pollutant (ozone).   PM2.5 penetrate the deepest recesses of our lungs.  As well as causing lung disease, PM2.5…

  • Biomass Growth Capacity Drops in US

    – May 27, 2014, Bioenergy Insight Five new biomass plants with a total generation capacity of 10MW came online in the US last month, according to the Energy Infrastructure Update for April, published by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Since the start of 2014, 12 biomass-fired facilities producing a total 20MW of renewable energy have…

  • Supreme Court Issues Decision on EPA’s GHG Tailoring Rule

    – by Erin Voegele, June 24, 2014, Biomass Magazine On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on the U.S. EPA’s Tailoring Rule. While the court invalidated a portion of the rule, it essentially held up EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for certain facilities, specifically those required to obtain a Prevention…

  • American Lung Association Contradicts Its Own Mission on Fracking

    – by Ronald Saff and Maura Stephens, May 22, 2014, Source: Truthout The American Lung Association has acknowledged that fracking causes massive amounts of cancer-causing air pollution, and has urged stronger regulations, but after receiving hefty donations from a fracking company, the ALA switched to falsely promoting gas as “cleaner than other fossil fuels.” “Sobering Statistics…

  • Farm Bill Based on Flawed Assumptions about Forest Health and Wildfire

    – by George Wuerthner There are widely held assumptions that logging will reduce or preclude large wildfires and beetle outbreaks. The recent Farm Bill provision that would allow categorical exclusion to log up to 3000 acres without NEPA review is based on flawed assumptions about forest health and wildfire.  1. LARGE WILDFIRE CLIMATE DRIVEN Large…