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2014 Victories in Review In our most exciting year yet, grassroots campaigns that we’ve started or supported have won 16 victories, mostly against biomass and waste incinerators, though some were pro-active policies or other facilities (landfills or gas-fired power plants). This brings the total number of incinerator victories in our network to about 50 just…

Thank you to the over 900 people (including over 100 signing on for groups) who sent in these comments to EPA on their Clean Power Plan!  The deadline has passed, but if you’d like to be in our information loop for future alerts, please join us (it’s free).  You can also support our work by…

Million Cubic Feet (MMcf) of Natural Gas Use in the U.S. Source: Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_cons_sum_dcu_nus_a.htm

Since January, we’ve been working to help get two bills passed in DC City Council, both of which passed unanimously on July 14th, 2014!  Several aspects of the bills were made stronger through our efforts. The most exciting parts of these bills include: The two bills that passed are the “Sustainable DC Omnibus Act of…

The variable operations and maintenance (O&M) costs are as follows: Variable O&M costs include fuel and other consumable materials and supplies; raw water; waste and wastewater disposal expenses; purchased power (incurred inversely to operating hours), demand charges and related utilities; chemicals, catalysts and gases; ammonia for selective catalytic reduction (SCR), as applicable; and lubricants. Source:…

The incinerator industry admits that incineration is more expensive than landfilling. This is true in nearly every local instance we’ve seen, with rare exceptions. Here are some of the admissions by the industry: Most recently, the industry has admitted that incineration “is considerably more costly than the alternative of landfill disposal” and that a “principal…

Printable PDF version Zero Waste Hierarchy (short, sweet version): RedesignReduceSource Separate: (reusables, recycling, composting and trash) Zero Waste Hierarchy (in more detail): The landfill management aspects are nuanced because it’s critical to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions from landfills are avoided, unlike how landfills are commonly managed today. For a full appreciation of the need…

[In May 2013, over 500 grassroots activists sent in this sign-on letter to EPA about their inadequate Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants.] Dear EPA Administrator McCarthy: Your proposed CO2 rule for new electric generating units falls short in several ways and must be strengthened so that it does not worsen global warming and…