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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…

  • Why We Must Fight Gas-fired Power Plants

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network The Ban Ki Moon U.N. Cli­mate Sum­mit is short­ly com­ing to New York City. As we march and teach work­shops at cli­mate con­ver­gences, the media is like­ly to focus on the sto­ry of the Oba­ma administration’s “Clean Pow­er Plan” mov­ing us away from coal in order to mit­i­gate cli­mate change. The sto­ry won’t be told…

  • Biomass Incinerators Sue Feds for $22 Million

    - by Maeusz Perkosw­ki, Sep­tem­ber 16, 2014, Cap­i­tal Press Two bio­mass facil­i­ties in Cal­i­for­nia that use agri­cul­tur­al waste to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty claim the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment owes them about $22 million. The plain­tiffs — Amper­sand Chow­chilla Bio­mass and Merced Pow­er — claim the U.S. Trea­sury Depart­ment is wrong­ly with­hold­ing funds from an eco­nom­ic stim­u­lus pro­gram that helps pay…

  • What the Frack? Scraping the Bottom of the Oil Barrel is Not Good to the Last Drop

    - by Mark Robi­nowitz, PeakChoice.org The tox­ic impacts of hydraulic frac­tur­ing for oil and gas have been sub­ject to pub­lic debates, protests, and law­suits, among oth­er tac­tics to stop these dan­gers. But the oth­er half of the frack­ing sto­ry, which has had much less atten­tion, is the exag­ger­a­tion of recov­er­able reserves. The frack­ing indus­try claims shale…

  • Amid Oil and Gas Boom, Colorado Continues Role as Earthquake Lab

    - by Kevin Simp­son, August  31, 2014,  The Den­ver Post From the liv­ing room chair where he sat read­ing around half past 9 on a May evening, Ron Bak­er heard the boom and felt his cen­tu­ry-old Gree­ley farm­house shud­der, send­ing a menagerie of plas­tic hors­es top­pling from a bed­room shelf. He stepped out the back door and…

  • Marcellus Shale Drillers Under-Reported Waste

    - by Anya Lit­vak and Maxwell Rad­win, August 31, 2014, The Post-Gazette EQT Corp. told the Penn­syl­va­nia Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion that it sent 21 tons of drill cut­tings from its Mar­cel­lus Shale wells to area land­fills in 2013. But land­fills in south­west­ern Penn­syl­va­nia told a dif­fer­ent story. Six facil­i­ties in this part of the state report­ed receiv­ing near­ly 95,000…

  • Proposed Washington Biomass Incinerator Nets $200k State Grant

    [Anoth­er bio­mass incin­er­a­tor that would require the log­ging of pub­lic lands. ‑Ed.]  - by Eric Florip, August 27, 2014, The Columbian A $200,000 state grant will sup­port a new bio­mass-fueled pow­er plant near Steven­son expect­ed to be oper­a­tional next year, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednes­day. The mon­ey will go to Wind Riv­er Bio­mass Util­i­ty, which has…

  • Oregon Group Files Civil Rights Complaint Over Biomass Air Pollution

    - by Lisa Arkin, August 6, 2014, Beyond Tox­i­cs On August 6, Beyond Tox­i­cs filed a civ­il rights and envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice com­plaint with the U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA) chal­leng­ing the Lane Coun­ty Region­al Air Pro­tec­tion Agency’s deci­sion to allow a pow­er plant to increase its dis­charges of haz­ardous par­tic­u­late mat­ter. The com­plaint alleges that allow­ing…

  • Energy Justice Summer: Standing With Communities in the Shalefields

    - by Ener­gy Jus­tice Summer This sum­mer youth have gath­ered in the shale gas region of North­east­ern Penn­syl­va­nia to facil­i­tate train­ings, com­pile reports, and to fight for the safe­ty of landown­ers, work­ers, and the environment. Ener­gy Jus­tice Sum­mer is based in Susque­han­na Coun­ty in order to direct­ly con­nect with the com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers impact­ed by shale gas…

  • Residents Voice New Concerns on Gainesville, FL Biomass Incinerator

    -  by Mor­gan Watkins, August 5, 2014, Gainesville Sun Local res­i­dents wor­ried about the bio­mass plant showed up Tues­day evening for a pub­lic meet­ing on its draft Title V air oper­a­tion per­mit, which could be approved this fall, to make their con­cerns known. Folks milled around the Hall of Heroes Com­mu­ni­ty Room at the Gainesville Police Depart­ment…