Category: Blog entry

  • VICTORY! DC Denies Exelon-Pepco Merger

    DC’s Public Service Commission just shot down the plan for the nation’s largest nuclear utility, Exelon, to buy Pepco, the electric utility that services the Washington, DC area and a few neighboring states. This is a huge victory for ratepayers and the environment, since Exelon wanted to have the extra millions of ratepayers to push…

  • Family defends maple syrup trees from gas pipeline

    Now through the end of March: Come up to Susquehanna County and defend the Holleran family’s maple syrup grove from being cut down for a gas pipeline! http://wnep.com/2016/02/01/trees-on-chopping-block-for-natural-gas-pipe… “A family’s maple syrup operation is in jeopardy in Susquehanna County…” Tags <natural gas> <pipeline>

  • Where U.S. Energy Comes From:

    Want to know where U.S. energy currently comes from? Check out this new series of charts we just updated, based on data through August 2016, with projections for all of 2016. Find all of them here: www.energyjustice.net/energysources Here are some of the highlights: See more at www.energyjustice.net/energysources

  • Are Carbon Taxes Another False Solution?

    – by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network October 2014 Carbon taxes are emerging as a major top-down climate solution enviros would like to see come out of Congress.  Plenty of “tax carbon” signs were present in the 400,000-strong People’s Climate March in New York City last month.  Even U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging nations to…

  • Fossil Fuel Divestment: How to Evolve the Campaign Beyond its Shortcomings

    – by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network October 2014 Sometimes, environmental movement campaigns that become very popular aren’t the ones that are the most strategic. Trying to divert the fossil fuel divestment bandwagon to a better path hasn’t been easy (or well-received), but some critical examination is long overdue. As activists like to point out, we…

  • Study: Biofuel Crops Replacing Grasslands, Contributing to CO2 Emissions

    – April 4, 2015, Grand Island Independent A new study from University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers show that crops, including the corn and soybeans used for biofuels, expanded onto 7 million acres of new land in the U.S. over a recent four-year period, replacing millions of acres of grasslands. The study — from UW-Madison graduate student Tyler…

  • Biomass Developer Eyes Louisiana for Three New Biofuel Refineries

    Biomass Developer Eyes Louisiana for Three New Biofuel Refineries August 27, 2013, Source: BioEnergy News Cool Planet Energy Systems, a producer of petrol from non-food biomass, is to build three biomass-to-biofuel production plants in the US state of Louisiana for an investment of $168 million (€125.9 million). Two sites – one in Alexandria and another in Natchitoches…

  • Waste-to-Energy Incinerator License Revoked in Scotland

    Waste-to-Energy Incinerator License Revoked in Scotland  – August 27, 2013. Source: BBC News The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) is revoking the operating licence of an energy-from-waste plant on the outskirts of Dumfries. The notice was issued to Scotgen (Dumfries) Ltd on Friday and comes into effect on 23 September. The £20m plant was the site of…

  • Florida Trash Incinerator Proposal Bites the Dust

    (Source: Laurie K. Blandford and Anthony Westbury, TC Palm) A trash incinerator proposal for St. Lucie, Florida has fallen through following a unanimous decision by the St. Lucie County Commissioners to terminate the contract with Georgia-based Geoplasma, citing economic concerns. The 24 megawatt incinerator would’ve incinerated 600 tons of trash per day using a technology called plasma arc, which…

  • Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Carbon Standards for Biomass Industry

    Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Carbon Standards for Biomass Industry – by Jeremy P. Jacobs and Jean Chemnick, July 12, 2013. Source: Environment and Energy Daily A three-judge panel scrapped a U.S. EPA rule today that had given biomass-burning facilities a pass on compliance with federal greenhouse gas emission standards. The U.S. Court of Appeals for…