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  • Doctor Talks Incineration

    Doc­tor Talks Incineration - by Mitchell Kirk, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2013. Source: Pharos-Tribune More than 50 peo­ple came out for a pre­sen­ta­tion Tues­day at Logans­port Memo­r­i­al Hos­pi­tal about how incin­er­a­tion plants can affect health. The event was orga­nized by Cit­i­zens’ Alliance for Respon­si­ble Ener­gy, or CARE, a group of cit­i­zens who oppose the pro­posed pow­er plant project in…

  • (September 2013) ANTI-BIOMASS CAMPAIGN CALL RECORDING & NOTES: “A Pediatrician’s Perspective on Air Pollution and Children”

    Anti-Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tion Cam­paign — Nation­al Con­fer­ence Call Notes Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 5, 2013 at 3pm EST Top­ic: “A Pedi­a­tri­cian’s Per­spec­tive on Air Pol­lu­tion and Chil­dren” — We dis­cuss the human health impacts of bio­mass incin­er­a­tion and oth­er forms of indus­tri­al air pol­lu­tion, with a focus on our nation’s most vul­ner­a­ble pop­u­la­tion: our children. Guest speak­er: Dr. Nor­ma Kreilein, MD, Fel­low…

  • Biomass Industry Fans Flames of Wildfire Hysteria

    Bio­mass Indus­try Fans Flames of Wild­fire Hysteria  California’s Rim fire, expect­ed to be ful­ly “con­tained” by Octo­ber after ignit­ing in Yosemite Nation­al Park on August 17, will ulti­mate­ly ben­e­fit the forests it has passed through. While media accounts sen­sa­tion­al­ize such large wild­fires as “cat­a­stroph­ic” and “dis­as­trous,” sci­ence demon­strates that, to the con­trary, fire is a vital com­po­nent of…

  • Biomass Health Care Costs

    Bio­mass Health Care Costs  - by Dick Stokes, August 16, 2013. Source: Gainesville Sun Physi­cians warned Gainesville offi­cials for years about the increased health risks and health-care costs from bio­mass-burn­ing emissions. There’s noth­ing green, clean or healthy about haul­ing over 22 coun­ties’ worth of wood on diesel-belch­ing trucks every day to burn in our backyard. Diox­ins, fine…

  • E.U. Agroenergy Policy: A Foreseeable Disaster

    E.U. Agroen­er­gy Pol­i­cy: A Fore­see­able Disaster In a mis­guid­ed attempt to alleged­ly tack­le run­away cli­mate change, the Euro­pean Union (E.U.) is imple­ment­ing pol­i­cy that would increase car­bon diox­ide emis­sions, dis­place native peo­ples, threat­en pub­lic health, and degrade forests and watersheds. A new report, A Fore­see­able Dis­as­ter: The Euro­pean Union’s agroen­er­gy poli­cies and the glob­al land and water grab,…

  • Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula

    Track­ing Bio­mass Air Pol­lu­tion on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula Gov­ern­ment agen­cies and pol­i­cy­mak­ers have long turned a deaf ear to con­cerns with human health threats from bio­mass incin­er­a­tion. A new exper­i­men­tal study under­way on Washington’s Olympic Penin­su­la may ulti­mate­ly com­pel elect­ed offi­cials to act to pro­tect pub­lic health from bio­mass incin­er­a­tion, while serv­ing as a mod­el…

  • How to Stop a Biomass Incinerator

    How to Stop a Bio­mass Incinerator - by Peo­ple for Clean Mountains On July 22, 2013 the Tran­syl­va­nia Coun­ty, North Car­oli­na Board of Com­mis­sion­ers vot­ed 3–2 to enact a one year mora­to­ri­um on the devel­op­ment and per­mit­ting of any bio­mass facil­i­ty pro­duc­ing any out­put. This was the cul­mi­na­tion of four months of effort by the cit­i­zens…

  • Biomass Carpetbaggers

    Bio­mass Carpetbaggers - by Tom Tolg, August 20, 2013. Source: The Recorder   If Edi­tor Blagg’s pro-bio­mass col­umn was a meal I’d say it was a thin gru­el of taint­ed left­overs along with a fruit sal­ad loaded with sour grapes.  Leav­ing the din­ner table, we stum­ble onto “car­pet­bag­gers” who Mr. Blagg iden­ti­fies with the anti-bio­mass folks. If you…

  • New York Biomass Incinerator Awaits $100 Million Handout

    New York Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tor Awaits $100 Mil­lion Handout August 17, 2013, Source: Mid Hud­son News Network The Tay­lor Bio­mass waste-to-ener­gy project has had the sup­port of U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Mal­oney, D‑Cold Spring, since his can­di­da­cy for Con­gress last year. The Orange Coun­ty facil­i­ty is await­ing a $100 mil­lion loan guar­an­tee from the U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy and…

  • Timber Industry Distorts Information to Exploit Our Forests

    Tim­ber Indus­try Dis­torts Infor­ma­tion to Exploit Our Forests - by Saman­tha Chir­il­lo, July 11, 2013. Source: Register-Guard Swan­son sup­pos­ed­ly states just the facts regard­ing Ore­gon’s forests and indus­try, but instead dis­torts them. Swan­son is con­nect­ed to the Swan­son Group, a fam­i­ly that owns mills depen­dent on pub­lic timber. Her bias may be expect­ed, but her…