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Letter to EPA Objecting to Loopholes in Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants
[In May 2013, over 500 grassroots activists sent in this sign-on letter to EPA about their inadequate Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants.] Dear EPA Administrator McCarthy: Your proposed CO2 rule for new electric generating units falls short in several ways and must be strengthened so that it does not worsen global warming and…
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Massachusetts Grants Millions to Biomass Industry
[Millions of taxpayer dollars go to polluting biomass incineration under the guise of “clean” energy. -Ed.] – by Anna Simet, June 5, 2014, Biomass Magazine Massachusetts has dedicated $3.5 million to nine renewable thermal projects in the state through a new grant program, the Massachusetts Renewable Thermal Business Investment Financing Program. Funds for the program are…
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Biomass and Gas Incinerator Proposed for Vermont Yankee Nuke Site
– by Mike Faher, June 3, 2014, Brattleboro Reformer Selectboard members are touting the potential benefits of new biomass power plant — with the possibility of a natural-gas component — that could be built at the Vermont Yankee site after the nuclear facility shuts. Officials expect to organize a public forum to discuss the deetails of…
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Half the Wood for New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator from Out of State
– by Chris Jensen, May 23, 2014, New Hampshire Public Radio About 51 percent of the wood purchased for the new Burgess BioPower biomass plant in Berlin during its first two months of operation came from New Hampshire, according to a new “sustainability” report filed with the state’s Site Evaluation Committee. Thirty-five percent came from Maine. Five percent…
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Baltimore Residents Face Potential Risks from New Incinerator
– by Jaisal Noor, May 27, 2014, The Real News VIDEO HERE JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: This is Baltimore’s Benjamin Franklin High. Will a the country’s largest incinerator, being built just one mile from here, endanger the health of the students at the school? The Energy Answers Fairfield Renewable Energy Project will burn 4,000 tons of…
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Hazardous Waste is Not Clean, Renewable Energy
– by Lisa Wozniak, June 2, 2014, Lansing News People in politics tell a lot of “success” stories, but one that can be substantiated is the rise of clean, renewable energy in Michigan. Thanks to a law passed with bipartisan support in 2008, Michigan has been challenged to generate 10 percent of its energy from renewable…
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Maryland adopting pro-burn zero waste plan; enviros object to it
Maryland has proposed an ambitious zero waste plan to reduce, reuse, recycle, compost and burn its waste.Something is wrong with this picture… burning isn’t part of real zero waste programs! Our comments oppose incineration and demonstrate that Maryland does NOT have the landfill space crisis they pretend to have.
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The Ten Commandments of Movement Solidarity
After a decade of grassroots advocacy, my personal belief is that the greatest obstacle to positive change in the world isn’t corporations, the government, or the 1%, but lack of movement solidarity. And no, I’m not pretending to be some modern day Moses bringing the divine truths down from the mountain. I’m just someone who…
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Dirty Wood-Heaters
– by Dr. Dorothy Robinson, Woodsmoke.3sc.net The most health-hazardous air pollutant is PM2.5 (tiny particles less than 2.5 millionth of a metre in diameter) that cause 10 to 20 times as many premature deaths as the next worst pollutant (ozone). PM2.5 penetrate the deepest recesses of our lungs. As well as causing lung disease, PM2.5…
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Biomass Growth Capacity Drops in US
– May 27, 2014, Bioenergy Insight Five new biomass plants with a total generation capacity of 10MW came online in the US last month, according to the Energy Infrastructure Update for April, published by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Since the start of 2014, 12 biomass-fired facilities producing a total 20MW of renewable energy have…
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