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  • Citizens Urge EPA and Congress to Choose Public Interest Over Politics on Energy Policy

    - Mike Ewall and Saman­tha Chirillo In Decem­ber, 900 Amer­i­cans, includ­ing 100 orga­ni­za­tions across the U.S. col­lec­tive­ly voiced their con­cerns about major parts of Pres­i­dent Obama’s Clean Pow­er Plan, in com­ments sub­mit­ted to the U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA). Cit­i­zens specif­i­cal­ly asked the EPA to: ·      set more aggres­sive tar­gets and address envi­ron­men­tal justice ·      not encour­age more…

  • Is Cellulosic Ethanol All it’s Cracked Up to Be?

    - by Edward Dodge, Decem­ber 10, 2014, Break­ing Energy The EPA has long pro­mot­ed cel­lu­losic ethanol as the future of bio­fu­els, but tech­ni­cal chal­lenges have kept pro­duc­tion far below tar­gets. A recent rule change allows RNG, renew­able nat­ur­al gas, to qual­i­fy as cel­lu­losic bio­fu­el even though RNG is not cel­lu­losic, but this helps EPA appear to be meet­ing their goals.…

  • Biomass Energy: Another Kind of Climate Change Denial

    (Graph­ic: Indi­ana Joel) We’re all famil­iar with cli­mate change deniers, cheer­ful­ly and/or will­ful­ly igno­rant folk who refuse to accept that human-caused car­bon emis­sions are respon­si­ble for the cli­mate cri­sis — or that there even is a cli­mate cri­sis. Those of us who val­ue sci­ence and com­mon sense typ­i­cal­ly have as much patience for these twen­ty-three per­cent of Amer­i­cans…

  • California Lawsuit Seeks Pollution Cuts From Massive Tree-burning Power Plant

    - by Kevin Bundy, August 22, 2014, Cen­ter for Bio­log­i­cal Diversity The Cen­ter for Bio­log­i­cal Diver­si­ty filed a law­suit today chal­leng­ing a Clean Air Act per­mit issued by the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency for a mas­sive, 31-megawatt bio­mass pow­er plant pro­posed by Sier­ra Pacif­ic Indus­tries in Ander­son, Calif. The chal­lenge, filed direct­ly in the 9th Cir­cuit U.S.…

  • Supreme Court Issues Decision on EPA’s GHG Tailoring Rule

    - by Erin Voegele, June 24, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its deci­sion on the U.S. EPA’s Tai­lor­ing Rule. While the court inval­i­dat­ed a por­tion of the rule, it essen­tial­ly held up EPA’s abil­i­ty to reg­u­late green­house gas (GHG) emis­sions for cer­tain facil­i­ties, specif­i­cal­ly those required to obtain a Pre­ven­tion…

  • EPA: Carbon Rules Could Ensure Nuclear Power’s Survival

    [Anoth­er rea­son why the dirty ener­gy resis­tance needs to band togeth­er. ‑Josh] - by Julie Wer­nau, June 18, 2014, Chica­go Tribune Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency Admin­is­tra­tor Gina McCarthy said Tues­day that the fed­er­al agen­cy’s pro­posed car­bon rules are designed to boost nuclear plants that are strug­gling to compete. “There are a hand­ful of nuclear facil­i­ties that because…

  • EPA Seeks Comments on “Repowering America’s Land Initiative”

    [Con­tact the EPA at cleanenergy@epa.gov by May 30 and urge them NOT to include bio­mass ener­gy in their plans. ‑Ed.]  - Erin Voegele, May 8, 2014, Source: Bio­mass Magazine The U.S. EPA is seek­ing pub­lic com­ments on its new draft action plant for the RE-Pow­er­ing America’s Land Ini­tia­tive. The pro­gram pro­motes renew­able ener­gy devel­op­ment on cur­rent and for­mer­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed lands,…

  • EPA Begins to Address Biomass Emissions in Permits Following Court Decision

    - by Andrew Childers, March 28, 2014. Source: Envi­ron­ment Reporter The Envi­ron­men­tal Appeals Board par­tial­ly remand­ed an air pol­lu­tion per­mit for a waste-to-ener­gy facil­i­ty in Puer­to Rico after it failed to account for green­house gas emis­sions from biomass. The Ener­gy Answers Areci­bo LLC per­mit is one of the first to address emis­sions from bio­mass in the wake of…