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  • Report: Biomass Dirtier Than Coal

    Friends of the Earth (Eng­land, Wales, and North­ern Ire­land), Green­peace, and the UK’s Roy­al Soci­ety for the Pro­tec­tion of Birds denounce burn­ing trees for elec­tric­i­ty as a greater threat to the cli­mate over the com­ing decades than burn­ing coal, the dirt­i­est fos­sil fuel, in a report released in November.  The report, Dirt­i­er Than Coal: Why Gov­ern­ment plans to sub­sidise…

  • Medical Doctors Brief Congress on Biomass Energy Health Hazards

    Three med­ical doc­tors and a sci­en­tist pre­sent­ed the first-ever Con­gres­sion­al brief­ing on the health haz­ards of bio­mass incin­er­a­tion in the U.S. Con­gress in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. on Sep­tem­ber 25, 2012. The brief­ing was arranged and spon­sored by Save Amer­i­ca’s Forests and the pre­sen­ta­tions can be viewed online here. Pedi­a­tri­cians William Sam­mons, M.D., of Mass­a­chu­setts and Nor­ma Kreilein, M.D., of…

  • Support Energy Justice!

    Help us help you! With your sup­port, we can con­tin­ue to help com­mu­ni­ty groups stop pol­luters and win a clean ener­gy, zero-emis­sion, zero-waste future for all! 2024 update: Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work has reor­ga­nized and is no longer under the Action Cen­ter, Inc. non­prof­it, which no longer exists. Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work, Inc. is now an inde­pen­dent non­prof­it,…

  • Picking an Issue: From Service Projects to Issue Campaigns

    Pick­ing an Issue: From Ser­vice Projects to Issue Campaigns Orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished by the Stu­dent Envi­ron­men­tal Action Coali­tion, and writ­ten by Adam Berrey (1993), expand­ed and updat­ed by Mike Ewall (1999) Have you felt that your group was doing a lot of activ­i­ties but not get­ting any­thing done? Have you start­ed to won­der if anoth­er Earth Day…

  • Mercury in Waste Coal

    Mercury in Waste Coal

    Above chart from “Mer­cury and Util­i­ties: Cur­rent Con­trol Tech­nolo­gies” (7/31/2001 EPA pre­sen­ta­tion, page 6), based on EPA’s 1999 Infor­ma­tion Col­lec­tion Request (ICR) (down­load raw data or view their sum­ma­ry data in Excel. More con­cise sum­ma­ry data com­par­ing BTU, mer­cury and sul­fur con­tent of coals by region avail­able from the U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy’s Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion…

  • The Myth of Clean Coal

    The Myth of Clean Coal: Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plants IGCC Fact sheet (2 page handout version) IGCC Fact sheet (longer version)

  • Mercury

    Above chart from "Mercury and Utilities: Current

  • Burning Issues with Biomass

    The Burning Issues with Biomass by Mike Ewall Green energy to bring us wind mills AND incinerators

  • Conserving Heating Fuels

    Conserving Heating Fuels The upcoming winter promises to be a painful one for millions of consumers across the country. Dramatically higher prices for winter heating fuels threaten the pocketbooks of many consumers and could deliver a multi-billion dollar blow to the nation’s economy. Even in warm-weather parts of the country, rising fuel prices will have…

  • The Myth of Clean Coal: Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plants

    IGCC Fact sheet (2 page hand­out version) IGCC Fact sheet (longer version)