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  • Concerns About Syracuse, NY Trash Incinerator Pollution

    - Jan­u­ary 6, 2015, Local­SYR It’s the next step to allow trash from Cort­land Coun­ty to be brought into Ononda­ga County’s Waste to Ener­gy facility. Both coun­ties’ leg­is­la­tures this week have held pub­lic hear­ings on the so called “Ash for Trash” plan. For two decades now Ononda­ga Coun­ty’s Waste to Ener­gy facil­i­ty has been burn­ing trash only…

  • Air Pollution: Clean Up Our Skies

    - by Julia Schmale, Novem­ber 19, 2014, Nature In Decem­ber, the world’s atten­tion will fall on cli­mate-change nego­ti­a­tions at the 20th Unit­ed Nations Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change (UNFCCC) Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties in Lima, Peru. The empha­sis will be on reduc­ing emis­sions of long-term atmos­pher­ic dri­vers such as car­bon diox­ide, the effects of which will…

  • Study Finds Ethanol Worse For Air Quality Than Gasoline

    - by Bill Hud­son, Decem­ber 17, 2014, CBS Min­neso­ta For years, the state’s corn and ethanol indus­tries have tout­ed the envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits of burn­ing the alter­na­tive fuel in our vehicles. But new­ly released research from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta Col­lege of Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing is rais­ing eyebrows. The study com­pared pol­lu­tion lev­els from gaso­line fuel and…

  • College Trash Habits Cause Concern, as Does Incinerator in Chester

    - by Bob­by Zipp, Novem­ber 20, 2014,  Swarth­more Phoenix Two weeks ago, a group of the Green Advi­sors con­duct­ed a waste audit of Kohlberg Hall and the Sci­ence Cen­ter. The pur­pose of the annu­al audit is to cre­ate a visu­al rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the amount of waste pro­duced by those build­ings and test how well the…

  • More Wood to be Burned for Energy in 2015

    - by Erin Voegele, Novem­ber 14, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine The U.S. Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Admin­is­tra­tion has released the Novem­ber issue of its Short-Term Ener­gy Out­look, which includes updat­ed fore­casts for the use of wood and bio­mass fuels in U.S. heat and pow­er production. The EIA pre­dicts that wood bio­mass will be use gen­er­ate 118,000 MWh elec­tric­i­ty per…

  • Indiana Ethanol Facility Fined $9,600 for Clean Air Act Violations

    - by Seth Slabaugh, Novem­ber 11, 2014, The Star Press Car­di­nal Ethanol has paid a $9,600 fine to set­tle a com­plaint that it vio­lat­ed its Clean Air Act oper­at­ing permit. The penal­ty is insignif­i­cant in light of the grass­roots, investor-owned com­pa­ny’s prof­itabil­i­ty — $26.4 mil­lion net income for the fis­cal year end­ed Sept. 30, 2013. Pres­i­dent Jeff Painter…

  • Industry Take: How Will 2014 Elections Impact Biomass?

    - by Bob Cleaves, Novem­ber 23, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine On Nov. 4, Amer­i­cans vot­ed. This elec­tion was a deci­sive vic­to­ry for Repub­li­cans. Sen­ate, House, guber­na­to­r­i­al and even state leg­is­la­ture races across the coun­try saw con­ser­v­a­tives pre­vail. These results were expect­ed, sur­pris­ing to polit­i­cal types only in the thor­ough­ness of the wins across the board. What does this…

  • 34-Megawatt Biomass Incinerator Proposed for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

    -  by Andy Bal­askovitz, Novem­ber 10, 2014, Mid­west Ener­gy News Devel­op­ers from metro Detroit have plans to build a $100 mil­lion, 34 MW bio­mass plant in the cen­tral Upper Penin­su­la, about 20 miles south of an aging coal plant that is the ongo­ing focus of the region’s ener­gy crisis. The com­pa­ny build­ing the plant, Mar­quette Green Ener­gy LLC, says it would…

  • Biomass Investigative Review Will Begin Soon in Gainesville, FL

    - Octo­ber 16, 2014, WCJB It’s offi­cial — an inves­tiga­tive review into deci­sions made between GRU and GREC offi­cials will soon begin. City offi­cials vot­ed to approve the con­tract to begin the review that will ques­tion deci­sions made relat­ing to the bio­mass plant. The city will be shelling out close to $190,000 for the review. Addi­tion­al costs will…

  • Lakeview Biofuel Plant Proposal Raises Air Quality Concerns

    - Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, Ore­gon Pub­lic Broadcasting A project pro­posed in Lake­view, Ore­gon, would turn woody bio­mass from log­ging into bio­fu­els for South­west Air­lines, the U.S. Navy and Marines. The bio­fu­el would have few­er green­house gas emis­sions than tra­di­tion­al jet fuel and diesel, but some wor­ry the project might add to exist­ing air qual­i­ty prob­lems in…