Tag: energy

  • Dirt Cheap Clean Energy? | January issue of Energy Justice Now

    Just in time, the January issue of Energy Justice Now — the national forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance — is here! Inside this issue: Dirt Cheap Clean Energy – Dirt Cheap Clean Energy –  Energy Storage and Solar Inspiring Customers to Drop Utilities? –  Destruction of Demand: How to Shrink Our Energy Footprint …and more! Please share the January 2015 issue of Energy…

  • Concerns About Syracuse, NY Trash Incinerator Pollution

    – January 6, 2015, LocalSYR It’s the next step to allow trash from Cortland County to be brought into Onondaga County’s Waste to Energy facility. Both counties’ legislatures this week have held public hearings on the so called “Ash for Trash” plan. For two decades now Onondaga County’s Waste to Energy facility has been burning trash only…

  • Nova Scotia Power Biomass in Cape Breton Raising Green Concerns

    – by Aaron Beswick, January 9, 2015, The Chronicle Herald About 2,790 hectares. That’s a rough estimate of how much woodland will need to be cut annually to feed Nova Scotia Power’s biomass boiler at Point Tupper. “It seems that more of the fears are coming true than the benefits we had envisioned from that facility,”…

  • Will Energy Storage Plus Solar Inspire Customers to Abandon Utilities?

    – by Lisa Cohn, February 28, 2014, Energy Efficiency Markets To hear the Rocky Mountain Institute tell the story, it’s not a question of whether utility customers will start defecting from their utilities in favor of off-grid solutions that involve energy storage and solar energy. It’s a question of when. Truth is, it’s already happening in…

  • Air Pollution: Clean Up Our Skies

    – by Julia Schmale, November 19, 2014, Nature In December, the world’s attention will fall on climate-change negotiations at the 20th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties in Lima, Peru. The emphasis will be on reducing emissions of long-term atmospheric drivers such as carbon dioxide, the effects of which will…

  • Keep Corporate Polluters at Bay, Please Donate Today!

    Energy Justice Network is one of the few national nonprofits in the U.S. organizing with grassroots communities to say NO! to all forms of dirty energy, from fracked gas, to coal plants, to biomass and waste incineration, to nuclear power. Over 2014, we have raised $89,700 from individual donors, only $10,300 away from our goal of $100,000! Will you…

  • From Shock to Victory: The Planet’s “Immune System” at Work

    – by Jan Baty, Newark Residents Against the Power Plant As I saw Alex Lotorto (campus and community organizer for Energy Justice Network) step out of his car, unloading materials for the meeting he was to lead at my house, I had a flash back to how I had discovered the Energy Justice Network. In…

  • Census Bureau Releases Biomass Incinerator Data

    – by Erin Voegele, December 3, 2014, Biomass Magazine   The U.S. Census Bureau recently released new economic census statistics on renewable energy, reporting that revenues for electric power generation industries that use renewable energy resources increased 49 percent from 2007 to 2012, reaching $9.8 billion. In 2007, revenue was only $6.6 billion. Biomass is among the…

  • December issue of Energy Justice Now | Celebrating 16 Victories for Clean Air in 2014!

    Never fear, the December issue of Energy Justice Now — the national forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance — is here! www.energyjustice.net Inside this issue: Celebrating 16 Victories for Clean Air in 2014! – 16 Victories for Clean Air –  From Shock to Victory: The Planet’s “Immune System” at Work –  Incinerator in Frederick, MD Canceled After Decade-Long Fight …and more! Please…

  • October/November issue of Energy Justice Now | Where the Climate March Tripped Up

    Take a deep breath and prepare yourself for the October / November issue of Energy Justice Now, a forum for the dirty energy resistance. Fossil Fuel Divestment – Fossil Fuel Divestment: How to Evolve the Campaign –  Are Carbon Taxes Another False Solution? –  Biomass Energy: Another Kind of Climate Change Denial …and more! Please share the October /…