Category: Blog entry

  • 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…

  • Incinerator in Frederick, MD Canceled After Decade-Long Fight

    - by Patrice Gal­lagher, No Incin­er­a­tor Alliance On Novem­ber 20, 2014, Fred­er­ick Coun­ty, Mary­land’s Board of Coun­ty Com­mis­sion­ers can­celled plans to build a 1500 ton-per-day waste-to-ener­gy incin­er­a­tor, end­ing a 10 year cit­i­zens’ effort to kill the project and put bet­ter alter­na­tives for com­mu­ni­ty waste man­age­ment in place. The vote was 3 to 2, and all three…

  • From Shock to Victory: The Planet’s “Immune System” at Work

    - by Jan Baty, Newark Res­i­dents Against the Pow­er Plant As I saw Alex Lotor­to (cam­pus and com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­er for Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work) step out of his car, unload­ing mate­ri­als for the meet­ing he was to lead at my house, I had a flash back to how I had dis­cov­ered the Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work. In Newark…

  • Ethanol Spill in Greensboro, North Carolina

    - Decem­ber 8, 2014, Bio­fu­els International Fire­fight­ers in Greens­boro, North Car­oli­na, respond­ed to a leak­ing tanker at a Ryder truck rental facility. Approx­i­mate­ly 2,000 gal­lons of ethanol spilled in an acci­dent in south Greens­boro North Carolina. A tanker filled with ethanol burst after the land­ing gear, which is used to keep the trail­er upright when not…

  • Census Bureau Releases Biomass Incinerator Data

    - by Erin Voegele, Decem­ber 3, 2014, Bio­mass Mag­a­zine   The U.S. Cen­sus Bureau recent­ly released new eco­nom­ic cen­sus sta­tis­tics on renew­able ener­gy, report­ing that rev­enues for elec­tric pow­er gen­er­a­tion indus­tries that use renew­able ener­gy resources increased 49 per­cent from 2007 to 2012, reach­ing $9.8 bil­lion. In 2007, rev­enue was only $6.6 bil­lion. Bio­mass is among the…

  • Over 1,200 New Biomass Incinerators to be Constructed Within the Next 10 Years?

    - Decem­ber 4, 2014, AltEner­gy­Mag Elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion from sol­id bio­mass con­tin­ues to increase through­out the world. In late 2013, around 2,800 oper­a­tional pow­er plants world­wide were incin­er­at­ing bio­mass only or very large shares of this fuel. These plants had an elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion capac­i­ty of about 42 GWel. Addi­tion­al­ly, around 350 fos­sil pow­er plants were co-incin­er­at­ing bio­mass.…

  • USDA Announces Release of Report Charting Path to Commercialization of Cellulosic Nanomaterials

    - by Lynn L. Berge­son, Novem­ber 26, 2014, JD Supra Busi­ness Advisor On Novem­ber 24, 2014, the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture (USDA) announced that the U.S. For­est Ser­vice (USFS) has released a report that details the path­way to com­mer­cial­iz­ing afford­able, renew­able, and biodegrad­able cel­lu­lose nano­ma­te­ri­als from trees.  The report, enti­tled Cel­lu­lose Nano­ma­te­ri­als — A Path Towards Com­mer­cial­iza­tion, is…

  • Soil Erosion May Get Us Before Climate Change Does

    - by Richard Reese, Decem­ber 1, 2014, Resilience Out­side the entrance of the glo­ri­ous Hall of West­ern His­to­ry are the mar­ble lions, col­or­ful ban­ners, and huge stone columns. Step inside, and the pop­u­lar exhibits include ancient Egypt, clas­si­cal Greece, the Roman Empire, the Renais­sance, Guten­berg, Mag­el­lan, Colum­bus, Galileo, and so on. If we cut a hole…

  • Study: Logging Destabilizes Forest Soil Carbon

    - by John Cramer, Decem­ber 2, 2014, Dart­mouth College Log­ging does­n’t imme­di­ate­ly jet­ti­son car­bon stored in a forest’s min­er­al soils into the atmos­phere but trig­gers a grad­ual release that may con­tribute to cli­mate change over decades, a Dart­mouth Col­lege study finds. The results are the first evi­dence of a region­al trend of low­er car­bon pools in soils…

  • Ethanol, Fighting for Its Life, Gets a Temporary Reprieve

    - by Matthew Philips, Novem­ber 24, 2014, Bloomberg Busi­ness­week The ethanol indus­try just avoid­ed a death blow. Rather than decid­ing to per­ma­nent­ly low­er the amount of renew­able fuels that have to be blend­ed into the U.S. gaso­line sup­ply, as it first pro­posed a year ago, the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency last week opt­ed to wait until next year to decide.…