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  • EPA eGRID 2010 CO2, SO2 and NOx Emissions Data for U.S. Electric Power Plants

    The fol­low­ing data is from the U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agen­cy’s 2010 eGRID data­base, which has data for all elec­tric gen­er­at­ing plants in the U.S.  Our copy of this data, orga­nized to pro­duce the charts below, is avail­able here. [Note that, while this data makes nat­ur­al gas look clean, it’s only look­ing at smoke­stack emis­sions.  Nat­ur­al…

  • There Is Hope For Energy Efficiency!

    By Ralph Cavanagh Novem­ber 26th, 2013 Switch­board NRDC Blog In the glob­al com­pe­ti­tion for appeal­ing clean ener­gy solu­tions, a lead­ing entry is the new West Vil­lage at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia at Davis (UC Davis), which today cel­e­brat­ed sig­nif­i­cant progress toward its goal of becom­ing the largest planned “zero-net ener­gy” com­mu­ni­ty in the Unit­ed States. Sev­en years…

  • How to Blog

    We want grass­roots activists and oth­er Ener­gy Jus­tice sup­port­ers to blog on our website. First you can email Aaron to apply to get an account.  Let us know who you are, any groups you are involved in, and what top­ics you might write about.  Aaron will review the appli­ca­tion to make sure you aren’t a…

  • Biofuel Investments at Seven-year Low

    Bio­fu­el invest­ments at sev­en-year low July 8, 2013. Source: Bloomberg Europe’s biggest oil com­pa­nies are scal­ing back work on the next gen­er­a­tion of bio­fu­els, a set­back for the effort to cre­ate a gaso­line sub­sti­tute that doesn’t drain the food supply.  BP Plc (BP/) and Roy­al Dutch Shell (RDSA) Group Plc have halt­ed funds for four sep­a­rate ven­tures…

  • Biomass Plans Withdrawn for Isle of Wight

    Bio­mass Plans With­drawn for Isle of Wight - by Ross Find­on, July 9, 2013. Source: Isle of Wight Coun­ty Press The sur­prise deci­sion by Real Ven­tures was announced this morn­ing (Tues­day) just hours before the Isle of Wight Coun­cil was due to con­sid­er an appli­ca­tion by the com­pa­ny to extend its pre­ferred bid­der sta­tus for a for­mer land­fill site…

  • Biomass Incinerator Proposed for Vidalia, Louisiana

    Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tor Pro­posed for Vidalia, Louisiana July 12, 2013. Source: The Advo­cate  Hin­ter­land LLC is plan­ning a $100 mil­lion-plus, 50-job bio­mass facil­i­ty in the 130-acre Vidalia Indus­tri­al Park. “We are excit­ed to announce and wel­come Hin­ter­land LLC as our newest res­i­dent in the Vidalia Indus­tri­al Park,” said Vidalia May­or Hyram Copeland said in a news release. The…

  • Amidst Opposition, a Conference and Industry in Crisis

    Amidst Oppo­si­tion, a Con­fer­ence and Indus­try in Crisis - by Will Ben­ning­ton, Glob­al Jus­tice Ecol­o­gy Project  (Pho­to: Orin Langelle/photolangelle.org) Hun­dreds of activists descend­ed upon Asheville, North Car­oli­na in May for a week of major protests at the inter­na­tion­al bi-annu­al Tree Biotech­nol­o­gy con­fer­ence. The con­fer­ence, host­ed by the Inter­na­tion­al Union of For­est Research Orga­ni­za­tions (IUFRO), is a major…

  • Documents revealed from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to DC’s Department of Public Works (DPW)

    Ener­gy Jus­tice & Sier­ra Club FOIA Request to DC Depart­ment of Pub­lic Works (1/3/2014) Response Let­ter (2/11/2014) and full raw FOIA response (58 MB zip file) Ener­gy Jus­tice FOIA Request to DC Depart­ment of Pub­lic Works (4/20/2013) Priv­i­lege Log (list of what they redact­ed and why)

  • VICTORY against Maryland’s “Waste Portfolio Standard” — the Latest Creative Way to Prop Up Incinerators

    - by Mike Ewall What does an incin­er­a­tor indus­try do when they can’t com­pete?  Change the rules.  Bio­mass and trash incin­er­a­tors are the most expen­sive way to make ener­gy, and trash incin­er­a­tion costs more than direct­ly land­fill­ing the waste.  These indus­tries sur­vive to the extent that they can change the rules to get monop­oly waste con­tracts, become ‘renew­able’ ener­gy in…

  • Biomass Health Study a Smokescreen?

    A study on the health risks from a bio­mass pow­er incin­er­a­tor pro­posed for Plac­er Coun­ty, Cal­i­for­nia con­tains “sev­er­al fal­lac­i­es,” accord­ing to Nor­ma Kreilein, MD, a Fel­low of the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pedi­atrics. A Health Impact Assess­ment of the Pro­posed Cab­in Creek Bio­mass Ener­gy Facil­i­ty in Plac­er Coun­ty, Cal­i­for­nia claims that the con­struc­tion of the 2.2 megawatt Cab­in Creek…