Category: Blog Post

Maryland has proposed an ambitious zero waste plan to reduce, reuse, recycle, compost and burn its waste.Something is wrong with this picture… burning isn’t part of real zero waste programs! Our comments oppose incineration and demonstrate that Maryland does NOT have the landfill space crisis they pretend to have.

JusticeMap.org (beta), our website and set of race and income open map layers that lets you demonstrate economic and racial injustice, now lets you export the map to an image. This allows you to post it on your website, add it to your publication, share it on Facebook, Twitter, email, etc. Firstly you customize the map…

I was asked to submit this piece by the Northeast Pennsylvania Energy Journal, a pro-fracking magazine funded entirely by gas industry ads that’s inserted in our local newspapers. The piece will be printed with an industry representative’s counter argument that shale gas is good for Pennsylvania and the climate. Power Shift Shalefield Tour by Alex…

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.…

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,…

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…

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/…

Waste Land: One Town’s Atomic Legacy: A $500 Million CleanupQuarter-Century Crusade to Force Government Cleanup of Radioactive Contamination By John R. EmshwillerNov. 21, 2013 11:22 p.m. ET APOLLO, Pa.—For Patty Ameno, it is a Kodak moment from childhood that stirs many memories. She is 8 years old, dressed up for Easter in her family home’s…

Bakken boom linked to haze at Theodore Roosevelt park Posted on 11/08/2013 by Greenwire By Phil Taylor As new oil wells crop up by the thousands in the mineral-rich Bakken play in northwest North Dakota, nearby Theodore Roosevelt National Park has experienced spikes in haze-causing pollution, according to a new study. While the boom has created wealth for…

By Kip Hill August 16th, 2013 Spokesman review Millions of homes Adding energy production by retrofitting the largest 100 dams in the country could boost the nation’s production enough to power 3.2 million more homes, the Department of Energy said in a study. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers says hydropower is back, and Congress seems to…