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  • Rim Fire Forests Fuel Biomass Energy

    - Decem­ber 29, 2014, The Recorder Near­ly 40,000 tons of for­est residue from the Rim Fire area in Tuolumne Coun­ty has been removed for use to gen­er­ate bio­mass ener­gy, accord­ing to the U.S. Agri­cul­ture Department. Mean­while, the USDA said it has made funds avail­able to help Cal­i­for­nia landown­ers con­serve nat­ur­al resources dam­aged or threat­ened as a…

  • Biofuel Hell

    - by Richard Adri­an Reese, Feb­ru­ary 17, 2013, Wild Ances­tors I keep hav­ing night­mares about one pos­si­ble future: bio­fu­el hell.  Clear­ly, they are visions sent by ances­tral spir­its, and they are meant to be shared.  Per­haps they will inspire writ­ers, movie mak­ers, and oth­er cre­ative peo­ple to pro­duce heal­ing, mind-alter­ing work.  Per­haps they will inspire con­tem­pla­tion…

  • Will Energy Storage Plus Solar Inspire Customers to Abandon Utilities?

    - by Lisa Cohn, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2014, Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy Markets To hear the Rocky Moun­tain Insti­tute tell the sto­ry, it’s not a ques­tion of whether util­i­ty cus­tomers will start defect­ing from their util­i­ties in favor of off-grid solu­tions that involve ener­gy stor­age and solar ener­gy. It’s a ques­tion of when. Truth is, it’s already hap­pen­ing in Hawaii—where…

  • Destruction of Demand: How to Shrink Our Energy Footprint

    - by Richard Hein­berg, Novem­ber 4, 2014, Post Car­bon Institute The human econ­o­my is cur­rent­ly too big to be sus­tain­able. We know this because Glob­al Foot­print Net­work, which method­i­cal­ly tracks the rel­e­vant data, informs us that human­i­ty is now using 1.5 Earths’ worth of resources. We can tem­porar­i­ly use resources faster than Earth regen­er­ates them only by…

  • 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…

  • Keep Corporate Polluters at Bay, Please Donate Today!

    Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work is one of the few nation­al non­prof­its in the U.S. orga­niz­ing with grass­roots com­mu­ni­ties to say NO! to all forms of dirty ener­gy, from fracked gas, to coal plants, to bio­mass and waste incin­er­a­tion, to nuclear power. Over 2014, we have raised $89,700 from indi­vid­ual donors, only $10,300 away from our goal of $100,000! Will you…

  • Covanta Settles for $536,211 in Lawsuit Over Biomass Ash Testing

    -Decem­ber 11, 2014, Bak­ers­field Californian Dis­trict attor­neys from eight Cal­i­for­nia coun­ties announced Thurs­day the set­tle­ment of a civ­il envi­ron­men­tal enforce­ment action against three sub­sidiaries of a New Jer­sey-based company. The set­tle­ment cov­ers Cov­an­ta Ener­gy LLC’s Kern Coun­ty bio­mass ener­gy facil­i­ty in Delano, along with oth­er com­pa­ny facil­i­ties in Men­do­ta and Oroville. Kern Coun­ty will receive about…

  • December issue of Energy Justice Now | Celebrating 16 Victories for Clean Air in 2014!

    Nev­er fear, the Decem­ber issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now — the nation­al forum for the Dirty Ener­gy Resis­tance — is here! www.energyjustice.net Inside this issue: Cel­e­brat­ing 16 Vic­to­ries for Clean Air in 2014! - 16 Vic­to­ries for Clean Air -  From Shock to Vic­to­ry: The Planet’s “Immune Sys­tem” at Work -  Incin­er­a­tor in Fred­er­ick, MD Can­celed After Decade-Long Fight …and more! Please share the Decem­ber 2014 issue of Ener­gy…

  • From Shock to Victory: The Planet’s “Immune System” at Work

    - by Jan Baty, Newark Res­i­dents Against the Pow­er Plant As I saw Alex Lotor­to (cam­pus and com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­er for Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work) step out of his car, unload­ing mate­ri­als for the meet­ing he was to lead at my house, I had a flash back to how I had dis­cov­ered the Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work. In Newark…

  • Ethanol Spill in Greensboro, North Carolina

    - Decem­ber 8, 2014, Bio­fu­els International Fire­fight­ers in Greens­boro, North Car­oli­na, respond­ed to a leak­ing tanker at a Ryder truck rental facility. Approx­i­mate­ly 2,000 gal­lons of ethanol spilled in an acci­dent in south Greens­boro North Carolina. A tanker filled with ethanol burst after the land­ing gear, which is used to keep the trail­er upright when not…