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  • How To Reduce Premature Deaths Linked to Environmental Risks

    [Phas­ing out com­bus­tion-based ener­gy such as fos­sil fuels and bio­mass ener­gy can save lives] – by Nan­cy C. Loeb and Juli­et S. Sorensen, April 8, 2016, Truthout Mil­lions of deaths around the world are pre­ventable every year with­out any addi­tion­al spend­ing on research for treat­ment. And the cause has noth­ing to do with gun vio­lence or war. Accord­ing…

  • Baltimore Incinerator Proposal Permit Yanked

    On March 17, the per­mit for the Ener­gy Answers trash incin­er­a­tor planned for the Cur­tis Bay neigh­bor­hood of Bal­ti­more, Mary­land was declared invalid by the Mary­land Depart­ment of the Envi­ron­ment, cap­ping years of protest from local res­i­dents and a stu­dent-led orga­ni­za­tion, Free Your Voice, part of Unit­ed Workers. The pro­posed incin­er­a­tor would be the largest in the nation,…

  • Maine Towns Vote Whether to Burn Trash or Make Biogas

    Actu­al­ly, there’s a third (and bet­ter) option and it’s called Zero Waste. - by Andy O’Brien, April 7, 2016, The Free Press On March 31, 2018, it will no longer be eco­nom­i­cal for mid­coast towns to send their house­hold trash to the  Penob­scot Ener­gy Recov­ery Co. (PERC) incin­er­a­tor in Orring­ton. That’s the date when the facil­i­ty los­es a…

  • Energy Information Administration: Trash Incineration About Disposal, Not Energy

    The fed­er­al gov­ern­men­t’s U.S. Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Admin­stra­tion puts to rest the idea that “waste-to-ener­gy” facil­i­ties exist to cre­ate elec­tric­i­ty, instead admit­ting that their main func­tion is to dis­pose of trash, with elec­tric­i­ty as a byproduct. - April 6, 2016, U.S. Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Administration At the end of 2015, the Unit­ed States had 71 waste-to-ener­gy (WTE)…

  • How To Fight a Pipeline

    - by Alex Lotor­to, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work is on the cut­ting edge of fight­ing frack­ing and relat­ed infra­struc­ture in the northeast.   It’s a spe­cial orga­niz­ing chal­lenge to fight pipelines, as we’re fight­ing a line, not a point, on the map. Com­pa­nies and agen­cies won’t release data list­ing all impact­ed landown­ers. In…

  • Report: Climate Consequences from Logging Forests for Bioenergy

    A new report warns about the poten­tial wors­en­ing of cli­mate change from log­ging Cana­di­an forests for elec­tric­i­ty and heat, and rec­om­mends a “pre­cau­tion­ary approach” regard­ing the expan­sion of bio­mass energy. For­est Bio­mass Ener­gy Pol­i­cy in the Mar­itime Provinces, writ­ten by Jamie Simp­son for the Hal­i­fax, Nova Sco­tia-based East Coast Envi­ron­men­tal Law, eval­u­ates envi­ron­men­tal impacts from…

  • Family defends maple syrup trees from gas pipeline

    Now through the end of March: Come up to Susque­han­na Coun­ty and defend the Holler­an fam­i­ly’s maple syrup grove from being cut down for a gas pipeline! http://wnep.com/2016/02/01/trees-on-chopping-block-for-natural-gas-pipe…“A fam­i­ly’s maple syrup oper­a­tion is in jeop­ardy in Susque­han­na County…”

  • Bioenergy Wrecks the Climate

    – by Ellen Moy­er, Decem­ber 2, 2015, Huff­in­g­ton Post Cli­mate change is telling us to stop pitch­ing pol­lu­tion into the atmosphere–in much the same way that the bubon­ic plague taught our ances­tors to stop dump­ing filth into the streets in the Mid­dle Ages. We lis­tened then, but not now. Gov­ern­ments con­tin­ue pay­ing indus­tries huge bonus­es to release car­bon…

  • Military Forests to Fuels in Oregon

    - by Chris Zin­da, Coun­ter­punch Goose Lake is 26 miles long and 9 miles wide, extend­ing from south cen­tral Ore­gon and into north­east­ern Cal­i­for­nia where the two meet with Neva­da. The lake used to sup­port an endem­ic form of red­band trout that act like ocean going salmon, grow­ing to giant pro­por­tions and migrat­ing up the streams…

  • Doctor’s Orders: Wood Burning Hazardous to Your Health

    - by Dr. Bri­an Moench, Utah Physi­cians for a Healthy Environment Civ­i­liza­tion orches­trates the curb­ing of one person’s free­doms for the pro­tec­tion of oth­ers and the greater good. When two people’s free­doms are mutu­al­ly exclu­sive, civ­i­liza­tion embraces the con­cept that the free­dom to not be harmed by oth­ers takes prece­dence. Traf­fic laws, zon­ing ordi­nances, and…