• Wisconsin Governor Wants to Cut $8 Million from Bioenergy Research

    - by Thomas Con­tent and Lee Bergquist, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2015, Jour­nal Sentinel In an about-face from his first term, Gov. Scott Walk­er wants to elim­i­nate fund­ing for a Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin-Madi­son renew­able ener­gy research cen­ter that has played a key role in help­ing land one of its biggest gov­ern­ment grants ever. In his bud­get, Walk­er is…

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  • Syracuse City Council Seeks Alternatives to Incineration

    - by Tim Knauss, March 2, 2015, Syracuse.com The city coun­cil today vot­ed against a 20-year exten­sion of Syra­cuse’s garbage dis­pos­al con­tract with the Ononda­ga Coun­ty Resource Recov­ery Agency, cit­ing a desire to pur­sue alter­na­tives to trash incineration. Syra­cuse remains oblig­at­ed under its exist­ing con­tract to haul waste to OCCRA’s trash plant near Jamesville through June…

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  • BLM Plan to Convert Nevada’s Pinyon Forests to Biomass Threatens Ancient Rituals

    - by Lisa Gale Gar­rigues, Indi­an Coun­try Today Media Network For cen­turies the piny­on trees of Neva­da have nour­ished the Shoshone, Paiute and oth­er peo­ples, giv­ing them pine nuts, ingre­di­ents for soup, milk and even a place to pray. Now it is about to become some­thing else: a prof­itable source of biomass. The Piny­on-Juniper Part­ner­ship, a con­sor­tium…

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  • Local Opposition Affects Oregon Biofuel Plant

    - by Al Maior­i­no, March 3, 2015, Envi­ron­men­tal Leader In 2014, the Unit­ed States Depart­ments of the Navy, Ener­gy and Agri­cul­ture award­ed a $70 mil­lion grant to Red Rock Bio­fu­els for the design, con­struc­tion, com­mis­sion­ing and per­for­mance test­ing of a new bio­fu­el refin­ery.  The biore­fin­ery is planned for Lake­view, Ore­gon, close to the Fre­mont Nation For­est…

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  • Firing Up Hawaiian Biomass Facility

    - by Chris D’Angelo, Feb­ru­ary 11, 2015, The Gar­den Island Green Ener­gy Team, LLC’s $90 mil­lion bio­mass-to-ener­gy facil­i­ty in Koloa is now hot. “They lit the boil­er and have start­ed mak­ing steam,” said Kauai Island Util­i­ty Coop­er­a­tive spokesman Jim Kel­ly, who is han­dling press inquiries for GET. “For the next prob­a­bly three to four weeks, they’re going…

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  • Contaminated Love Canal Soil Going to Nebraska Incinerator

    - by Richard Pier­sol, March 1, 2015, Lin­coln Jour­nal Star About a thou­sand tons of con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed soil from the noto­ri­ous Love Canal envi­ron­men­tal dis­as­ter in New York is being shipped by rail to Kim­ball for incin­er­a­tion because the com­pa­ny that is dis­pos­ing of it ran into objec­tions from Cana­di­ans, who did­n’t want it. Love Canal, a neigh­bor­hood in…

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  • U.S. Added 254 Megawatts of Biomass Energy in 2014

    - by Erin Voegele, Feb­ru­ary 6, 2015 Bio­mass Magazine The Fed­er­al Ener­gy Reg­u­la­to­ry Commission’s Office of Ener­gy Projects has released the Decem­ber edi­tion of its Ener­gy Infra­struc­ture Update, report­ing the U.S. added 254 MW of bio­mass ener­gy capac­i­ty last year. In Decem­ber, the U.S. added five bio­mass gen­er­at­ing units with a com­bined capac­i­ty of 23 MW. Dur­ing…

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  • Exploiting Private Forests for Bioenergy

    - by Roy Keene The debate over a sin­gle wood pow­ered elec­tri­cal gen­er­a­tor in Eugene has been myopi­cal­ly focused on just one project and one pro­posed fuel source. Sup­port­ers for Seneca Sawmill Co.’s pro­posed pow­er plant have yet to pub­licly men­tion that slash could be replaced with chipped trees as fuel prices rise, or that this…

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  • What a 20-year Biomass Battle Tells Us About Environmental Justice Policy

    - by Brentin Mock, Feb­ru­ary 24, 2015, Grist It’s well-estab­lished that the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency has been quite flac­cid when it comes to enforc­ing civ­il rights issues. The online news out­let E&E recent­ly took the time to remind us how bad it is last week, report­ing from Flint, Mich., where envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice com­plaints about a bio­mass ener­gy plant built…

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  • 2014 Maryland State Policies

    Environmental Community Statement on Maryland’s “Renewable Energy” Bills Out of our uni­fy­ing con­cern for pub­lic health, social jus­tice and envi­ron­men­tal integri­ty, we urge the Mary­land leg­is­la­ture to recon­sid­er aspects of sev­er­al ener­gy and waste bills that would con­tin­ue to move our state toward increased use of bio­mass and waste incin­er­a­tion (so-called “waste-to-ener­gy”). Pub­lic opin­ion strong­ly…

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