Tag: renewable energy

  • 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…

  • Questions of Reliability at Gainesville, Florida’s Biomass Generator Raises Concerns

    – December 17, 2014, Before It’s News In December 2013, the GREC Biomass generator was taken off-line to install noise-absorbing panels inside the main stack in an effort to quiet numerous noise complaints from residents living in Turkey Creek and surrounding communities. Even while noise and dust complaits continue, GRU/GREC, the City of Gaiesville and Alachua…

  • Study Finds Ethanol Worse For Air Quality Than Gasoline

    – by Bill Hudson, December 17, 2014, CBS Minnesota For years, the state’s corn and ethanol industries have touted the environmental benefits of burning the alternative fuel in our vehicles. But newly released research from the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering is raising eyebrows. The study compared pollution levels from gasoline fuel and…

  • 2014 Farm Bill Logs National Forests for Bioenergy

    – December 17, 2014, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that more than 200,000 tons of biomass were removed from federal lands through the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). BCAP, reauthorized by the 2014 Farm Bill, provided incentives for the removal of dead or diseased trees from National Forests and Bureau of…

  • Minnesota Ethanol Plant Fined $25K for Air Pollution and Noise

    – December 11, 2014, Associated Press The Corn Plus ethanol plant in the south-central Minnesota city of Winnebago has agreed to pay a $25,000 penalty and take steps to reduce its air pollution and noise levels. The corrective actions announced by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on Wednesday mark the latest step by officials to bring…

  • Tampa Man Sentenced for $3 Million Biofuels Fraud

    – by Susan Salisbury, December 9, 2014, Palm Beach Post     A Tampa man was sentenced today on charges he scammed investors out of more than $3 million after promising returns on bio-energy crops such as camelina that were not even planted William A. Vasden Jr. who once headed the Florida Feedstock Growers Association, was sentenced…

  • Incinerator in Frederick, MD Canceled After Decade-Long Fight

    – by Patrice Gallagher, No Incinerator Alliance On November 20, 2014, Frederick County, Maryland’s Board of County Commissioners cancelled plans to build a 1500 ton-per-day waste-to-energy incinerator, ending a 10 year citizens’ effort to kill the project and put better alternatives for community waste management in place. The vote was 3 to 2, and all…

  • 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…