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 journalists and activists that incinerators are NOT “waste-to-energy” facilities.
On the solutions side, we’ve added a new resources page on zero waste, including a detailed zero waste hierarchy. We’ve also added links to studies on our Clean Energy Solutions page.
To understand the energy industry at large, we’ve updated our U.S. Energy Price Trends page to include relative costs of different types of electric production and put together a page with the latest EPA data on CO2, SO2 and NOx Emissions from U.S. Electric Power Plants, so you can see how they compare (hint: trash incinerators are the worst).
On climate impacts, we have extensive documentation on the climate impacts of biomass incineration and on how biofuels may be worse for the climate than petroleum. Our natural gas page has a compilation of the latest science on methane’s global warming impacts, and we have a new page up on how Enhanced Oil Recovery is not carbon sequestration. We’ve pulled together links to all of the major resources on why burning landfill gas for energy is a bad idea and now have our sign-on letter to EPA objecting to their CO2 rule for new power plants archived.
If you’d like to better understand the tools we have to help grassroots groups, you can now find a review of our various services and projects, including info on our work to help communities stop polluters with local ordinances and a guide on how to research polluters by doing file reviews at your state environmental agency.
