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  • Summary of Studies on Emissions of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and Nitrous Oxide (N2O) and Carbon Monoxide (CO) from Waste Coal Fluidized Bed Combustors (FBCs)

    FBC plants oper­ate at low­er tem­per­a­tures than con­ven­tion­al coal pow­er plants. [2,3,4,5] FBC plants use low oxy­gen (excess air) lev­els (to reduce NOx for­ma­tion). [2] Low oxy­gen lev­els and the low­er tem­per­a­ture range used by CFB plants increas­es emis­sions of car­bon monox­ide. [2] The low­er oper­at­ing tem­per­a­ture leads to far high­er emis­sions of nitrous oxide…

  • The Energy Bill Gets Worse

    New York Times Pub­lished: Sep­tem­ber 29, 2003 This coun­try needs a pur­pose­ful long-term ener­gy strat­e­gy that reduces itsdepen­dence on for­eign oil and deals with cli­mate change and all the oth­erair-qual­i­ty issues that are direct­ly relat­ed to the burn­ing of fos­sil fuelslike oil and coal. So how has Con­gress cho­sen to devel­op such a strat­e­gy?By pass­ing two mediocre…

  • Longhorn debate calls attention to pipelines

    By Chris­t­ian Davenport Austin Amer­i­can-States­man Staff April 16, 2000 Orig­i­nal arti­cles (were) online at: http://www.austin360.com:80/news/1metro/2000/04/16pipelines_001.html Several lines cross Central Texas, but they go unnoticed — until an accident happens They are three feet below the sur­face, a labyrinth of steel veins that pump oil and gaso­line from one end of the coun­try to the oth­er under hous­es,…

  • Blood for Oil: Oil & Gas Interests vs. People and the Environment

    Where are oil and gas extraction connected to human rights abuses? Where isn't it? Oil extraction is a very capital-intensive undertaking, dominated by large corporations and centralized governments, and usually requiring cooperation between the two. Often, the rights, health, and even lives of the local population are ignored, abused or assaulted.

  • Transportation and Heating Fuels

    The Prob­lems: “Alter­na­tive” Fuels Ethanol Cel­lu­losic Ethanol Waste-Based Fuels (includes cel­lu­losic ethanol / trash-to-ethanol and coal-to-liq­uids) Biodiesel Algae Biodiesel Hydro­gen and Fuel Cells Coal-to-Oil Tar Sands Waste Burn­ing in Cement Kilns Mil­i­tarism Oil & Gas vs. Peo­ple and the Environment The Solu­tions: Trans­porta­tion and Heat­ing Solu­tions Con­serv­ing Heat­ing Fuels

  • Clean Renewable Energy Can Meet All Our Needs

    Clean Renewable Energy Can Meet All Our Needs

    Updated December 2009 [See printable PDF of this fact sheet] Where Our Energy Comes From

  • 2007 Energy Bill

    2007 Ener­gy Bill: Look Before You Leap!Decem­ber 13, 2007 Help STOP Sub­si­dies to the Ethanol, Coal, Land­fill, Incin­er­a­tor and Nuclear Industries! WE LOST. Late in the day on 12/13/2007, the Sen­ate passed the bill in an 86–8 vote. It’ll soon coast through the House and be signed by res­i­dent Bush. The bill passed with­out the tax…

  • Cement Kiln Incineration

    Oth­er use­ful resources: Groups oppos­ing cement kilns and the use of cement kilns for waste incineration:

  • Natural Gas Health and Environmental Hazards

    See our print­able Nat­ur­al Gas Factsheet Nat­ur­al gas is a fos­sil fuel that is often pro­mot­ed as “clean­er” than coal, but which has its own seri­ous envi­ron­men­tal haz­ards.  Nat­ur­al gas is NOT a “tran­si­tion” fuel.  Nat­ur­al gas extrac­tion threat­ens ecosys­tems from north­ern Alas­ka and Cana­da to the Gulf of Mex­i­co, includ­ing drilling on farms, pub­lic lands, forests…