Tag: energy
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Census Bureau Releases Biomass Incinerator Data
- by Erin Voegele, December 3, 2014, Biomass Magazine The U.S. Census Bureau recently released new economic census statistics on renewable energy, reporting that revenues for electric power generation industries that use renewable energy resources increased 49 percent from 2007 to 2012, reaching $9.8 billion. In 2007, revenue was only $6.6 billion. Biomass is among the…
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October/November issue of Energy Justice Now | Where the Climate March Tripped Up
Take a deep breath and prepare yourself for the October / November issue of Energy Justice Now, a forum for the dirty energy resistance. Fossil Fuel Divestment - Fossil Fuel Divestment: How to Evolve the Campaign - Are Carbon Taxes Another False Solution? - Biomass Energy: Another Kind of Climate Change Denial …and more! Please share the October /…
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Fossil Fuel Divestment: How to Evolve the Campaign Beyond its Shortcomings
- by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice NetworkOctober 2014 Sometimes, environmental movement campaigns that become very popular aren’t the ones that are the most strategic. Trying to divert the fossil fuel divestment bandwagon to a better path hasn’t been easy (or well-received), but some critical examination is long overdue. As activists like to point out, we don’t have…
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Biomass Incinerator a Threat to Children
- by Norma Kreilein, MD, Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics [The biomass facility proposed for Jasper, Indiana referred to in this letter was canceled this year thanks to the hard work of Dr. Kreilein and Healthy Dubois County –Ed.] I am writing as a concerned pediatrician in Southern Indiana. We live in the heart of…