Category: Blog entry
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…