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With the pas­sage of Sen­ate Bill 690 dur­ing Mary­land’s 2011 Leg­isla­tive Ses­sion, Mary­land start­ed on the path of becom­ing the Trash Cap­i­tal of the U.S. This needs to stop, and we need your help. Leg­is­la­tors need to hear from voic­es that rep­re­sent the inter­ests of Mary­land res­i­dents, not from paid lob­by­ists and state agen­cies who…

2014 Victories in Review In our most excit­ing year yet, grass­roots cam­paigns that we’ve start­ed or sup­port­ed have won 16 vic­to­ries, most­ly against bio­mass and waste incin­er­a­tors, though some were pro-active poli­cies or oth­er facil­i­ties (land­fills or gas-fired pow­er plants). This brings the total num­ber of incin­er­a­tor vic­to­ries in our net­work to about 50 just…

Thank you to the over 900 peo­ple (includ­ing over 100 sign­ing on for groups) who sent in these com­ments to EPA on their Clean Pow­er Plan!  The dead­line has passed, but if you’d like to be in our infor­ma­tion loop for future alerts, please join us (it’s free).  You can also sup­port our work by…

Mil­lion Cubic Feet (MMcf) of Nat­ur­al Gas Use in the U.S. Source: Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Admin­is­tra­tion http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_cons_sum_dcu_nus_a.htm

Since Jan­u­ary, we’ve been work­ing to help get two bills passed in DC City Coun­cil, both of which passed unan­i­mous­ly on July 14th, 2014!  Sev­er­al aspects of the bills were made stronger through our efforts. The most excit­ing parts of these bills include: The two bills that passed are the “Sus­tain­able DC Omnibus Act of…

The vari­able oper­a­tions and main­te­nance (O&M) costs are as follows: Vari­able O&M costs include fuel and oth­er con­sum­able mate­ri­als and sup­plies; raw water; waste and waste­water dis­pos­al expens­es; pur­chased pow­er (incurred inverse­ly to oper­at­ing hours), demand charges and relat­ed util­i­ties; chem­i­cals, cat­a­lysts and gas­es; ammo­nia for selec­tive cat­alyt­ic reduc­tion (SCR), as applic­a­ble; and lubricants. Source:…

The vari­able oper­a­tions and main­te­nance (O&M) costs are as follows: Vari­able O&M costs include fuel and oth­er con­sum­able mate­ri­als and sup­plies; raw water; waste and waste­water dis­pos­al expens­es; pur­chased pow­er (incurred inverse­ly to oper­at­ing hours), demand charges and relat­ed util­i­ties; chem­i­cals, cat­a­lysts and gas­es; ammo­nia for selec­tive cat­alyt­ic reduc­tion (SCR), as applic­a­ble; and lubricants. Source: “Updat­ed…

The incin­er­a­tor indus­try admits that incin­er­a­tion is more expen­sive than land­fill­ing. This is true in near­ly every local instance we’ve seen, with rare excep­tions. Here are some of the admis­sions by the industry: Most recent­ly, the indus­try has admit­ted that incin­er­a­tion “is con­sid­er­ably more cost­ly than the alter­na­tive of land­fill dis­pos­al” and that a “prin­ci­pal…

Print­able PDF version Zero Waste Hier­ar­chy (short, sweet ver­sion): RedesignReduceSource Sep­a­rate: (reusables, recy­cling, com­post­ing and trash) Zero Waste Hier­ar­chy (in more detail): The land­fill man­age­ment aspects are nuanced because it’s crit­i­cal to ensure that green­house gas emis­sions from land­fills are avoid­ed, unlike how land­fills are com­mon­ly man­aged today. For a full appre­ci­a­tion of the need for…