New Hamp­shire leg­is­la­tors will be vot­ing on Sep­tem­ber 13, 2018 on whether to over­ride the gov­er­nor’s veto of SB365, a bill that would pro­vide $68 mil­lion in sub­si­dies to sev­en of the state’s 13 largest indus­tri­al air pol­luters: the trash incin­er­a­tor in Con­cord, and six tree-burn­ing “bio­mass” incin­er­a­tors. This would raise the rates of Ever­source…

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Hart­ford, Con­necti­cut is home to an aging and very pol­lut­ing trash incin­er­a­tor that the state would like to close. This state-run incin­er­a­tor serves 70 Con­necti­cut towns and is the coun­ty’s sec­ond largest air pol­luter. Shut­ting it down is a great idea, but… Con­necti­cut’s Depart­ment of Ener­gy and Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion (DEEP) only con­sid­ered three pro­pos­als to replace…

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Click to take action! In 2012, a group of ele­men­tary school stu­dents start­ed a Cray­ola: Make Your Mark! peti­tion call­ing for Cray­ola to “make sure these mark­ers don’t end up in our land­fills, incin­er­a­tors and oceans.”  The peti­tion gath­ered over 90,000 peti­tion sign­ers.  In 2013, Cray­ola launched their Col­or­Cy­cle pro­gram, but won’t admit that the…

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Trash incin­er­a­tion is incred­i­bly bad for the cli­mate, releas­ing 2.5 times as much car­bon diox­ide CO2 to make the same amount of elec­tric­i­ty as a coal pow­er plant. This is evi­denced by nation­al data com­piled by the U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA) in their eGRID database. How­ev­er, the indus­try, with the sup­port of the EPA,…

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