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  • Zero Waste

    Zero Waste is defined as “The conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials without burning and with no discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the environment or human health.” It’s not a utopic idea, but a set of policies and practices intended…

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery is NOT Carbon Sequestration

    Most carbon sequestration projects involve using the CO2 to pump into underground oil formations in order to get out more oil than they’d  normally be able to extract.  This has some obvious contradictions and should not be considered carbon sequestration, especially since much of that CO2 comes back up in the produced oil. As this…

  • Trash Incineration More Polluting than Coal

    To make the same amount of energy as a coal power plant, trash incinerators in 2018 released 65% more carbon dioxide (CO2), as much carbon monoxide, three times as much nitrogen oxides (NOx), five times as much mercury, nearly six times as much lead and 27 times more hydrochloric acid (HCl). Trash incinerators are the…

  • Incinerators are NOT “waste-to-energy” facilities

    Note to Journalists and Activists:Incinerators are NOT “waste-to-energy” facilities Words Mean Things Any journalist seeking to be accurate and objective should never call an incinerator a “waste-to-energy” facility. Journalists and environmentalists should not spread the confusion by repeating this public relations term. The term “waste-to-energy incinerator” should be replaced with simply “incinerator” or “[waste type]…

  • 220,000 acres of Colorado’s White River National Forest to be Logged for Biomass Energy

    Demand for biomass energy in Colorado will require logging in 220,000 acres of the White River National Forest. -Ed. – by Allen Best, March 6, 2014. Source: Mountain Town News For most of the last decade, Coloradans have been talking about how to make good use of their mountain forests, dying and gray. Something is finally…

  • Judith Johnsrud

    OBITUARY FOR DR. JUDITH H. JOHNSRUD July 1, 1931 – March 9, 2014 Judith H. Johnsrud of State College, PA, a highly-respected hero to opponents of nuclear energy in the United States and around the world, was born July 1, 1931, and grew up in Hammond, Indiana.  As a teenager Judy, as she was known…

  • Maryland’s Dirty “Renewable Energy” Bills

      Downloads RPS Cleanup Flyer RPS Cleanup Powerpoint presentation Taking Out the Trash: Why we should immediately remove trash incineration from the RPS How does Trash Incineration compare to Landfilling and Coal? Maryland’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) is one of the nation’s dirtiest renewable energy mandates. Over the lifetime of this mandate, the majority of…

  • Solar Catches on in Iowa

    By Karen Uhlenhuth December 18, 2013 Midwest Energy News Iowa is well established as a national leader in wind energy and biofuels. And now the state is poised for serious growth in solar as well. “The market is exploding in Iowa,” says Tim Dwight, a former Iowa Hawkeye and NFL star who has become one of his…

  • EPA eGRID 2010 CO2, SO2 and NOx Emissions Data for U.S. Electric Power Plants

    The following data is from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2010 eGRID database, which has data for all electric generating plants in the U.S.  Our copy of this data, organized to produce the charts below, is available here. [Note that, while this data makes natural gas look clean, it’s only looking at smokestack emissions.  Natural…

  • There Is Hope For Energy Efficiency!

    By Ralph Cavanagh November 26th, 2013 Switchboard NRDC Blog In the global competition for appealing clean energy solutions, a leading entry is the new West Village at the University of California at Davis (UC Davis), which today celebrated significant progress toward its goal of becoming the largest planned “zero-net energy” community in the United States.…