New or Updated Online Resources:

We’ve added sev­er­al things to our incin­er­a­tion web­page, includ­ing pages on how trash incin­er­a­tion is more pol­lut­ing than coal and is the most expen­sive way to man­age waste or to make ener­gy. We added a chart show­ing the decline in the num­ber of oper­at­ing incin­er­a­tors in the U.S., a list of all com­mer­cial trash incin­er­a­tors in the U.S., by size and a page explain­ing to jour­nal­ists and activists that incin­er­a­tors are NOT “waste-to-ener­gy” facil­i­ties.

On the solu­tions side, we’ve added a new resources page on zero waste, includ­ing a detailed zero waste hier­ar­chy. We’ve also added links to stud­ies on our Clean Ener­gy Solu­tions page.

To under­stand the ener­gy indus­try at large, we’ve updat­ed our U.S. Ener­gy Price Trends page to include rel­a­tive costs of dif­fer­ent types of elec­tric pro­duc­tion and put togeth­er a page with the lat­est EPA data on CO2, SO2 and NOx Emis­sions from U.S. Elec­tric Pow­er Plants, so you can see how they com­pare (hint: trash incin­er­a­tors are the worst).

On cli­mate impacts, we have exten­sive doc­u­men­ta­tion on the cli­mate impacts of bio­mass incin­er­a­tion and on how bio­fu­els may be worse for the cli­mate than petro­le­um. Our nat­ur­al gas page has a com­pi­la­tion of the lat­est sci­ence on methane’s glob­al warm­ing impacts, and we have a new page up on how Enhanced Oil Recov­ery is not car­bon seques­tra­tion. We’ve pulled togeth­er links to all of the major resources on why burn­ing land­fill gas for ener­gy is a bad idea and now have our sign-on let­ter to EPA object­ing to their CO2 rule for new pow­er plants archived.

If you’d like to bet­ter under­stand the tools we have to help grass­roots groups, you can now find a review of our var­i­ous ser­vices and projects, includ­ing info on our work to help com­mu­ni­ties stop pol­luters with local ordi­nances and a guide on how to research pol­luters by doing file reviews at your state envi­ron­men­tal agency.