• Maryland “Zero-Waste” Plan Draws Fire Over Inclusion of Incineration

    - by Tim­o­thy B. Wheel­er, Decem­ber 15, 2014, The Bal­ti­more Sun With Mary­lan­ders throw­ing away far more trash per per­son than the aver­age Amer­i­can, the O’Mal­ley admin­is­tra­tion released a long-range plan Mon­day to vir­tu­al­ly elim­i­nate plac­ing waste in state land­fills in the next 25 years. The plan is draw­ing mixed reac­tion, how­ev­er, as envi­ron­men­tal­ists crit­i­cize the blue­print­’s…

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  • 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…

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  • 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 the…

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  • $181,000 Fine for Ethanol Air Pollution in Albany, NY

    - by Bri­an Near­ing, Decem­ber 12, 2014, Times Union An oil ter­mi­nal oper­a­tor at the Port of Albany has been hit with a $181,000 penal­ty by the state Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Con­ser­va­tion for air pol­lu­tion vio­la­tions that last­ed near­ly a year. Buck­eye Part­ners failed to prop­er­ly con­trol vapor emis­sions from ethanol — a corn-based bio­fu­el used as a gaso­line…

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  • Covanta Settles for $536,211 in Lawsuit Over Biomass Ash Testing

    -Decem­ber 11, 2014, Bak­ers­field Californian Dis­trict attor­neys from eight Cal­i­for­nia coun­ties announced Thurs­day the set­tle­ment of a civ­il envi­ron­men­tal enforce­ment action against three sub­sidiaries of a New Jer­sey-based company. The set­tle­ment cov­ers Cov­an­ta Ener­gy LLC’s Kern Coun­ty bio­mass ener­gy facil­i­ty in Delano, along with oth­er com­pa­ny facil­i­ties in Men­do­ta and Oroville. Kern Coun­ty will receive about…

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  • New Factsheet on Energy Justice Communities Map and Justice Map

    I have cre­at­ed a new fly­er for Ener­gy Jus­tice Com­mu­ni­ties Map, Jus­tice Map, and the Spa­tial Jus­tice Test for Race and Income. Feel free to use this fly­er at any event (like a con­fer­ence, protest, work­shop, class, etc) where peo­ple might be inter­est­ed in these projects.

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  • So-Called Conservation Groups Betray Environmental Movement

    - by Howie Wolke, Decem­ber 11, 2014, Wilder­ness Watch My name is Howie Wolke and I live in the foothills of the Gal­latin Range in south­ern Mon­tana just north of Yel­low­stone Nation­al Park, about a mile from the greater Absaro­ka-Beartooth Wilder­ness Com­plex. I’ve been a wilder­ness guide/outfitter for back­pack­ing and canoe trips since 1978. I am also…

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  • 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…

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  • Windfarms More Efficient than Biofuels?

    - by Aidan Har­ri­son, Decem­ber 5, 2014, Northum­ber­land Gazette Its obses­sion with ‘mar­kets’ has already placed our rail­ways and util­i­ties in the hands of big for­eign state and cor­po­rate-owned monopolies. The first thing to make clear is that the tech­nol­o­gy of wind pow­er is noth­ing like as inef­fi­cient as its fanat­i­cal detrac­tors claim. In terms of ener­gy…

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  • December issue of Energy Justice Now | Celebrating 16 Victories for Clean Air in 2014!

    Nev­er fear, the Decem­ber issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now — the nation­al forum for the Dirty Ener­gy Resis­tance — is here! www.energyjustice.net Inside this issue: Cel­e­brat­ing 16 Vic­to­ries for Clean Air in 2014! - 16 Vic­to­ries for Clean Air -  From Shock to Vic­to­ry: The Planet’s “Immune Sys­tem” at Work -  Incin­er­a­tor in Fred­er­ick, MD Can­celed After Decade-Long Fight …and more! Please share the Decem­ber 2014 issue of Ener­gy…

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