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  • Massachusetts Grants Millions to Biomass Industry

    [Mil­lions of tax­pay­er dol­lars go to pol­lut­ing bio­mass incin­er­a­tion under the guise of “clean” ener­gy. ‑Ed.] -  by Anna Simet, June 5, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine Mass­a­chu­setts has ded­i­cat­ed $3.5 mil­lion to nine renew­able ther­mal projects in the state through a new grant pro­gram, the Mass­a­chu­setts Renew­able Ther­mal Busi­ness Invest­ment Financ­ing Program. Funds for the pro­gram are…

  • Biomass Combustion: Harmful on any Scale

    - by Cathy Baiton, Only Clean Air In the same way that indus­tri­al bio­mass com­bus­tion can seri­ous­ly jeop­ar­dize pub­lic health and the envi­ron­ment in com­mu­ni­ties, res­i­den­tial and small­er-scale com­mer­cial bio­mass burn­ing also have adverse impacts on health and air qual­i­ty in neighborhoods. In many cities and towns, increased wood burn­ing, both indoor and out­door, has become a…

  • Baltimore Residents Face Potential Risks from New Incinerator

    - by Jaisal Noor, May 27, 2014, The Real News  VIDEO HERE JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: This is Bal­ti­more’s Ben­jamin Franklin High. Will a the coun­try’s largest incin­er­a­tor, being built just one mile from here, endan­ger the health of the stu­dents at the school? The Ener­gy Answers Fair­field Renew­able Ener­gy Project will burn 4,000 tons of trash,…

  • Hazardous Waste is Not Clean, Renewable Energy

    - by Lisa Woz­ni­ak, June 2, 2014, Lans­ing News Peo­ple in pol­i­tics tell a lot of “suc­cess” sto­ries, but one that can be sub­stan­ti­at­ed is the rise of clean, renew­able ener­gy in Michi­gan. Thanks to a law passed with bipar­ti­san sup­port in 2008, Michi­gan has been chal­lenged to gen­er­ate 10 per­cent of its ener­gy from renew­able sources…

  • Dirty Wood-Heaters

    - by Dr. Dorothy Robin­son, Woodsmoke.3sc.net  The most health-haz­ardous air pol­lu­tant is PM2.5 (tiny par­ti­cles less than 2.5 mil­lionth of a metre in diam­e­ter) that cause 10 to 20 times as many pre­ma­ture deaths as the next worst pol­lu­tant (ozone).   PM2.5 pen­e­trate the deep­est recess­es of our lungs.  As well as caus­ing lung dis­ease, PM2.5…

  • American Lung Association Contradicts Its Own Mission on Fracking

    - by Ronald Saff and Mau­ra Stephens, May 22, 2014, Source: Truthout The Amer­i­can Lung Asso­ci­a­tion has acknowl­edged that frack­ing caus­es mas­sive amounts of can­cer-caus­ing air pol­lu­tion, and has urged stronger reg­u­la­tions, but after receiv­ing hefty dona­tions from a frack­ing com­pa­ny, the ALA switched to false­ly pro­mot­ing gas as “clean­er than oth­er fos­sil fuels.” “Sober­ing Sta­tis­tics Tell…

  • A Victim of Woodsmoke Pollution

    - by Shirley Brandie, WoodBurnerSmoke.net In 2000, we bought a home to enjoy our retire­ment in. It was per­fect for us! Every­thing on one floor, a sur­round­ing deck, and a large expanse of lawn. Lit­tle did we know that, in 2002, our lives would be changed dra­mat­i­cal­ly! Begin­ning in 2002, our home became sur­round­ed and infil­trat­ed…

  • Burn It Up?

    - by Vic Ste­blin, Source: WoodBurnerSmoke.net Humans have been burn­ing for much of his­to­ry. Africa burns its savan­na annu­al­ly and the smoke can be seen from space. Aus­tralia and Mediter­ranean areas reg­u­lar­ly burn off haz­ardous under­growth. Log­ging com­pa­nies burn off residue accord­ing to pro­fes­sion­al forestry codes. Ranch­ers and farm­ers burn old grass and crops to release nutrients. Even light­ning…

  • Welcome to Energy Justice Now!

    Wel­come to Ener­gy Jus­tice Now, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work’s first month­ly newsletter! Ener­gy Jus­tice Now will pro­vide crit­i­cal report­ing on the entire spec­trum of the dirty ener­gy resis­tance, high­light­ing the voic­es of com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­ers bat­tling fos­sil fuels, nuclear pow­er, and bio­mass and waste incin­er­a­tion from sea to shin­ing sea. We are accept­ing sub­mis­sions at nia­by [at]…

  • Biomass Lease Terminated by Jasper Clean Energy in Indiana

    - by Matthew Crane, April 21, 2014. Source: Dubois Coun­ty Free Press Dr. Nor­ma Kreilein, her hus­band, Mike, Alec Kalla and Rock Emmert were all in ses­sion dur­ing the Jasper Util­i­ty Ser­vice Board (USB) meet­ing Mon­day night — the eve of Earth Day — when it was announced that Jasper Clean Ener­gy would be ter­mi­nat­ing the lease to…