Tag: fossil fuels

  • Fossil Fuel Divestment: How to Evolve the Campaign Beyond its Shortcomings

    – by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network October 2014 Sometimes, environmental movement campaigns that become very popular aren’t the ones that are the most strategic. Trying to divert the fossil fuel divestment bandwagon to a better path hasn’t been easy (or well-received), but some critical examination is long overdue. As activists like to point out, we…

  • Spatial Justice Tests

    – by Aaron Kreider, Energy Justice Network  One of the main goals of Energy Justice Network’s Justice Map project is to demonstrate the role that income and race play in the siting of dirty facilities. You can use Justice Map (by clicking on Advanced Mode) to analyze the race and income of people who live within, say,…

  • Families Get $4 Million For Fracking Water Contamination

    In March, a federal jury awarded a total of $4.2 million to two families from Dimock, Pennsylvania whose drinking water wells have been contaminated by Cabot Oil and Gas when drilling for natural gas. “It’s been a battle,” said plaintiff Scott Ely, co-plaintiff with Ray Hubert, in a lawsuit against Cabot filed in 2009. “You’re…

  • Constitution Pipeline Permit Denied

    – April 22, 2016, Energy Justice Network On April 22, the New York Department of Conservation refused to issue a water quality permit for the Constitution Pipeline, a 124 mile pipeline that would’ve carried natural gas from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania to New York State. Accompanied by heavily armed U.S. Marshals wearing bulletproof vests, a Constitution Pipeline…

  • How To Reduce Premature Deaths Linked to Environmental Risks

    [Phasing out combustion-based energy such as fossil fuels and biomass energy can save lives] – by Nancy C. Loeb and Juliet S. Sorensen, April 8, 2016, Truthout [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”542″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”style”:”width: 333px; height: 221px; margin: 3px 10px; float: left;”,”title”:”Photo: Gianluca Di Natale”}}]]Millions of deaths around the world are preventable every year without any additional spending on research for treatment.…

  • 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…

  • Fracking Wastewater Treatment Facility Proposed in Pennsylvania

     – by Nicole Mulvaney, December 10, 2014, Times of Trenton An Israeli water recycling company is proposing a hazardous waste treatment facility about 6 miles southwest of Trenton across the Delaware River in the Keystone Industrial Port Complex. Elcon Recycling Center, which has an office in West Windsor, went before representatives of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental…

  • American Lung Association Contradicts Its Own Mission on Fracking

    – by Ronald Saff and Maura Stephens, May 22, 2014, Source: Truthout The American Lung Association has acknowledged that fracking causes massive amounts of cancer-causing air pollution, and has urged stronger regulations, but after receiving hefty donations from a fracking company, the ALA switched to falsely promoting gas as “cleaner than other fossil fuels.” “Sobering Statistics…

  • Call for Submissions: Energy Justice Now

    In June 2014, Energy Justice Network will be launching Energy Justice Now — a first-of-its kind publication reporting on the entire spectrum of the dirty energy resistance and highlighting the voices of community organizers battling fossil fuels, nuclear power, and biomass and trash incineration from sea to shining sea.  We are accepting submissions (200-1,000 words) on any topic relevant…

  • Energy Justice Now: A Forum for Dirty Energy Opponents

    Since 1999, Energy Justice Network has worked with communities across the U.S. to oppose every kind of dirty energy facility — from coal and natural-gas fired plants, to nuclear reactors, to biomass and trash incinerators — to protect human health and the natural world that keeps us alive. While countless pollution pushers have been run…