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Sunoco is rapidly cutting down trees on the Gerhart’s property in central PA to make way for more gas to be shipped overseas. Two people were arrested today, one student from Juniata College, who is alleged to have crossed into the claimed Mariner East 2 pipeline right-of-way to warn crews that a tree they were…

Prince George’s County is courting “waste-to-energy” (WTE) corporations to build new waste facilities that will pollute our community. Currently our trash goes to the Brown Station Sanitary Landfill in Upper Marlboro, which is scheduled to fill up and close in 5 years at current dumping rates. The County’s Department of the Environment is moving toward…

The most exciting news is coming sooner than I expected. The moment where the biggest fights become where to put all of the wind and solar, rather than having to endlessly fight off plans for nuclear, coal, oil, or gas power plants, or biomass or waste incinerators. The lines are already crossing. These are the…

I have created a new flyer for Energy Justice Communities Map, Justice Map, and the Spatial Justice Test for Race and Income. Feel free to use this flyer at any event (like a conference, protest, workshop, class, etc) where people might be interested in these projects.

SIGN ON: Tell EPA to clean up the Clean Power Plan! www.energyjustice.net/cleanpowerplan DEADLINE is Monday, December 1st As you probably know, the EPA has published its Clean Power Plan, intended to reduce carbon emissions from the nation’s electricity sector, for public comment. Our comments ask EPA to: Read the full comments and sign on to…

We’ve added several things to our incineration webpage, including pages on how trash incineration is more polluting than coal and is the most expensive way to manage waste or to make energy. We added a chart showing the decline in the number of operating incinerators in the U.S., a list of all commercial trash incinerators in the U.S., by size and a page explaining to…

This is the year for victories against biomass and waste incinerators. We’ve tracked 45 victories by those in our network since 2010, but this year is something special. It’s only been seven months and we’ve already seen seven victories, plus a victory against a proposed gas-fired power plant and two state-level policy victories. We’re proud to…

Since January, we’ve been working to help get two bills passed in DC City Council, both of which passed unanimously on July 14th!  Several aspects of the bills were made stronger through our efforts.  Tomorrow, DC Mayor Gray publicly signs one of them into law. The most exciting parts of these bills include: In more…

We just added a lot to our web resources on the problems with trash incineration. Check it out: www.energyjustice.net/incineration Updates include: