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  • 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]…

  • Public Lands, Dirty Energy

    - by Josh Schloss­berg, Ener­gy Jus­tice Now Grass­roots advo­cates have done a bang up job alert­ing the Amer­i­can pub­lic to the dis­turb­ing health and envi­ron­men­tal impacts of the extrac­tion, trans­porta­tion, and gen­er­a­tion of dirty ener­gy (fos­sil fuels, nuclear pow­er, and biomass/trash incin­er­a­tion). Green­house gas­es, air pol­lu­tion, and water con­t­a­m­i­na­tion from ener­gy sources requir­ing smoke­stacks or cool­ing…

  • Bioenergy Pipelines?

    - August 14, 2014, Waste Man­age­ment World [The lat­est bad idea com­ing out of the pol­lut­ing bioen­er­gy industry.] A sci­en­tist at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Alber­ta, Cana­da is research to deter­mine whether it’s effec­tive to use pipelines to trans­port agri­cul­tur­al waste used in biofuels. Accord­ing to the uni­ver­si­ty, Mah­di Vaezi, a PhD stu­dent in the Fac­ul­ty of Engi­neer­ing, is…

  • Energy Justice Now: A Forum for Dirty Energy Opponents

    Since 1999, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work has worked with com­mu­ni­ties across the U.S. to oppose every kind of dirty ener­gy facil­i­ty — from coal and nat­ur­al-gas fired plants, to nuclear reac­tors, to bio­mass and trash incin­er­a­tors — to pro­tect human health and the nat­ur­al world that keeps us alive. While count­less pol­lu­tion push­ers have been run out…

  • NEW STUDY: Air Pollution Good for Lungs

    HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY! - by Fiske Ster­ling, April 1, 2014. Source: TBN News A new study out of Miska­ton­ic Uni­ver­si­ty in Rhode Island has con­clud­ed that air pol­lu­tion, specif­i­cal­ly par­tic­u­late mat­ter, can repair dam­aged lung tissue. The sci­en­tif­ic con­sen­sus up until this point had been that par­tic­u­late mat­ter — the byprod­uct of com­bus­tion from pow­er…

  • EPA Proposal Classifies Wood Fuel from Construction, Demolition

    [Bio­mass indus­try push­ing for even less reg­u­la­tion of their dirt­i­est fuel source. ‑Ed.] - by Erin Voegele, March 27, 2014. Source: Bio­mass Magazine Bio­mass industry On March 27, the U.S. EPA released a pro­posed rule to amend its Non-Haz­ardous Sec­ondary Mate­ri­als reg­u­la­tion under the Resource Con­ser­va­tion and Recov­ery Act. The NHSM rule was final­ized in Feb­ru­ary…

  • Nippon Temporarily Shut Down Because of Biomass Fuel Problems at Power Plant

    - by Paul Got­tlieb, Feb­ru­ary 27, 2014. Source: Penin­su­la Dai­ly News PORT ANGELES — Fuel-sys­tem prob­lems with Nip­pon Paper Indus­tries USA’s new­ly expand­ed bio­mass cogen­er­a­tion plant have caused a two-week shut­down of the mill, accord­ing to a union official. Dar­rel Reetz, vice pres­i­dent of the Asso­ci­a­tion of West­ern Pulp & Paper Work­ers Local 155, said Thurs­day he…

  • Some Biofuel Feedstock Estimates ‘Overstating’ Yields

    - March 4, 2014. Source: Envi­ron­men­tal Leader Esti­mates for poten­tial bio­fu­el feed­stock crop yields from some wide­ly cit­ed research stud­ies may over­state those yields by as much as 100 per­cent, accord­ing to research by the Inter­na­tion­al Coun­cil on Clean Transportation. One key fac­tor in devel­op­ing a sus­tain­able bio­fu­els pol­i­cy is to real­is­ti­cal­ly esti­mate the amount of bio­mass that can…