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College Trash Habits Cause Concern, as Does Incinerator in Chester
– by Bobby Zipp, November 20, 2014, Swarthmore Phoenix Two weeks ago, a group of the Green Advisors conducted a waste audit of Kohlberg Hall and the Science Center. The purpose of the annual audit is to create a visual representation of the amount of waste produced by those buildings and test how well the…
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Compost Chicken Manure, Don’t Burn It
– by Mike Ewall, December 19, 2014, Baltimore Sun Dan Rodricks’ recent column urged the new governor to get a large-scale poultry waste incinerator built on the Eastern Shore (“Larry Hogan has a chance to be a green governor,” Dec. 13). This awful idea has been floated for 15 years now and has gone nowhere despite an array…
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Biomass Energy Growing Pains
Several biomass power facilities have come online over the last few years in Colorado, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida, and Hawaii, but not without difficulties, including fires, inefficient equipment, lawsuits, and competing with the low price of natural gas. Gypsum, Colorado Eagle Valley Clean Energy, an 11.5-megawatt biomass power facility in Gypsum, Colorado started operating in December…
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Environmental Justice in Virginia
Lorton, Virginia is one of the state’s most stark cases of environmental injustice. Lorton hosts three landfills, a sewage sludge incinerator and one of the largest and dirtiest trash incinerators in the nation. Covanta Fairfax is the third largest trash incinerator in the nation and is the biggest air polluter in Fairfax County. According to…
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DC United Soccer Stadium site – Toxic Contamination Documents
Zoning Case 16-02 A Resolution from ANC Regarding the DC United Consolidated PUD – 10-17-16 Community Health and Safety Study (CHASS) (70 pp; Aug 2016) – conducted by the District Department of Health to look at the overall health and economic vulnerabilities of the community New Jersey Institute of Technology Review of the Voluntary Clean-up…
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Water Abuse in the Fracking Process
– by Alex Lotorto, Energy Justice Network Water is used in shale gas development from cradle to grave, however, most people don’t think about it beyond the issues of groundwater contamination. Procuring and bringing raw materials like silica sand, steel, cement, and fracking chemicals to the well locations requires an incredible amount of manufacturing, transportation,…
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Energy’s Water Footprint
– by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network In 2005, thermoelectric power plants (nuclear, coal, oil, gas and trash/biomass incinerators) were responsible for 41% of all freshwater withdrawals and 49% of total water withdrawals (including oceans and brackish waters) in the U.S. Much of this water (mainly used for cooling) is returned to local water bodies, but at a higher…
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Eviction of Mobile Home Park for Fracking Water
– by Alex Lotorto, Energy Justice Network Riverdale Mobile Home Park was located on the Susquehanna River in Piatt Township, Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. Residents were ordered to leave the park in March 2012 by Aqua PVR LLC, a project of Aqua America, a private water utility, and Penn Virginia Resources, a natural gas pipeline company. …
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AUDIO: Energy’s Water Footprint in the Western Drought
Drought in the western U.S. is in the news every day, yet most media coverage ignores the impact from water withdrawals for industrial power facilities. While municipal and agricultural use are major drains on limited water resources, so too are biomass, coal, natural gas, and nuclear power facilities. On August 20, EJN spoke with Stacy Tellinghuisen,…
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If You Build It, They Will Cut
Generating biomass energy doesn’t result in more logging, according to the biomass industry, whose spokespersons claim facilities only make use of “waste” wood already coming from existing logging operations. Ron Kotrba, Senior Editor for Pellet Mill Magazine, wrote in the May/June 2015 issue that biomass is the “most unlikely of the forest products to drive…
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