An experimental trash and sewage sludge incinerator, planned in the heart of the Hispanic community in the City of Allentown, Pennsylvania is being challenged by Allentown Residents for Clean Air (ARCA). The group just submitted over 2,000 signatures to put a Clean Air Ordinance we wrote on the November ballot as an initiative. If this ballot initiative passes, Delta Thermo Energy will…
– by Mike Ewall What does an incinerator industry do when they can’t compete? Change the rules. Biomass and trash incinerators are the most expensive way to make energy, and trash incineration costs more than directly landfilling the waste. These industries survive to the extent that they can change the rules to get monopoly waste contracts, become ‘renewable’ energy…
Congratulations to Citizens Awareness Network and NIRS! Vermont Yankee is finally scheduled to close next year.
Yesterday, we joined the high school students in Baltimore for their excellent 100-strong march/rally against a plan for the nation’s largest waste incinerator, planned by Energy Answers within a mile of their school in one of the nation’s most polluted zip codes. It would burn 4,000 tons/day of trash, tires, shredded cars and wood waste, not…
Our end of the year fundraising drive raised a record $10,000 in donations! Thanks to everyone for the support and we will be fighting hard for and with you in 2014.
First major victory of the year… a community we’ve been supporting since October 2011 to stop a planned tire incinerator just won! In White Deer Township, Union County, Pennsylvania, En-Tire Logistics proposed the White Deer Energy Project, which would have burned tires to power the National Gypsum plant next door. The company pulled out of the project, withdrawing…
Minneapolis residents have just stopped the planned expansion of the trash incinerator in their city, and have set their county on the path to zero waste! The Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC), is capable of burning 1,212 tons of trash a day, but has been limited by permits to burning 1,000 tons/day. The county has been seeking to…
We just updated our page on natural gas with links to the latest studies showing that methane is far more potent for global warming than EPA considers it. Next time you’re hearing how much natural gas is a transition fuel or that it’s better than coal — or that landfill gas should be burned for energy (which releases more methane than…
A politically-connected new company hoped to sneak an application through during the holidays for a 60 ton/day hazardous waste incinerator in Bristol Township, near Philadelphia, PA. Once word got out late last year, political opposition grew fast and furious. People packed local government meetings to overflowing. Energy Justice director, Mike Ewall, who grew up in the adjacent township,…
HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY! April 1, 2014 DUNBORO – George Washington Renewable Energy is proposing the nation’s first money-to-energy facility, right here in Dunboro. Critics call it a money-burning incinerator. Nearly all of the nation’s used money is sent to landfills, but George Washington Renewable Energy sees an opportunity and hopes to generate enough electricity burning…
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