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  • Remembering Marvin Wheeler

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network  When we formed Allen­town Res­i­dents for Clean Air (ARCA) in 2012, we could­n’t have kicked it off with­out Mar­vin Wheel­er, who found us as an active mem­ber of the West Park Civic Asso­ci­a­tion. As a retired school nurse, Mar­vin under­stood the health threat posed by the plan to burn 150…

  • Are Media Outlets Megaphones for Polluters?

    Are Media Out­lets Mega­phones for Polluters? Thurs­day, May 21, 2015 at 5pm PST / 8 ET Guest Speak­er: Steve Horn, Inves­tiga­tive Journalist Are media out­lets doing an ade­quate job cov­er­ing the health and envi­ron­men­tal impacts of dirty ener­gy cor­po­ra­tions and oth­er polluters? Not accord­ing to Steve Horn, a Madi­son, Wis­con­sin-based free­lance inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist and writer for DeSmog­Blog. Steve has…

  • Solar Generation May Sideline Biomass Heating

    [Note: this arti­cle is writ­ten by long-time wood stove cheer­leader, John Ack­er­ly.  It’s nice to see him admit­ting that his wood-burn­ing dreams are about to be dashed by solar pow­er.  Ener­gy Jus­tice does not sup­port com­bus­tion sources for heat­ing, since non-burn alter­na­tives exist, and since there are many pol­lu­tion and health prob­lems relat­ing to wood stoves.]…

  • Media Disinformation on Biomass

    - by Chris Mat­era, Mass­a­chu­setts For­est Watch  Some peo­ple might call it a media fail­ure that tree-fueled bio­mass ener­gy, one of the dirt­i­est, most car­bon-inten­sive forms of ener­gy that exists, has a “clean” and “green” rep­u­ta­tion with much of the public.  It is not a media fail­ure, it is a media suc­cess when we acknowl­edge that…

  • Chinese Incinerator Plan Cancelled After Thousands Join Protests

    - by Mimi Lau, April 9, 2015, South Chi­na Morn­ing Post A west­ern Guang­dong city has can­celled a plan to build an incin­er­a­tor that prompt­ed a protest — of up to 10,000 peo­ple on some accounts — dur­ing which three police cars were flipped and a duty office vandalised. Luod­ing city gov­ern­ment post­ed two let­ters on its…

  • Shuttered Claremont, New Hampshire Incinerator to Reopen

    - by Patrick O’Grady, April 15, 2015, Val­ley News The shut­tered Whee­labra­tor incin­er­a­tor on Gris­som Lane was sold at auc­tion Tues­day for $1.63 mil­lion, with the buy­er say­ing he plans to use it to burn munic­i­pal waste. As sev­er­al bid­ders stood out­side the plant hop­ing to pick up pieces of equip­ment at a bar­gain price, auc­tion­eer Stu­art Mill­ner…

  • Biomass Corporation Sues Federal Gov’t for $47 Million

    - by Jacob Fis­chler, April 9, 2015, Law 360 Mead­West­va­co Vir­ginia Corp. slapped the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment with a $47 mil­lion suit in the Court of Fed­er­al Claims on Thurs­day, alleg­ing the U.S. Depart­ment of Trea­sury under­paid the com­pa­ny for the con­struc­tion of a bio­mass ener­gy generator. Under Sec­tion 1603 of the Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act,…

  • Boardman, Oregon Coal Plant Mulls Biomass

    - by George Plaven, April 6, 2015, EO Media Group As a poten­tial source of renew­able ener­gy, giant cane could be the answer to sav­ing Port­land Gen­er­al Electric’s coal-fired pow­er plant in Board­man long after the facil­i­ty quits using coal by 2020. On the oth­er hand, as an inva­sive species, giant cane could spread wild across the Colum­bia…

  • Company to Burn Biomass in Escanaba, Michigan Coal-Fired Plant

    - by Jen­ny Lan­cour, April 3, 2015, Escan­a­ba Dai­ly Press Any­one want­i­ng to express com­ments on a com­pa­ny’s recent pro­pos­al to buy Escan­aba’s pow­er plant can attend a pub­lic hear­ing next week at city hall, accord­ing to city officials. A pub­lic hear­ing on a pur­chase pro­pos­al sub­mit­ted by Ster­ling Ener­gy Group, Inc. will be held dur­ing the…

  • Reject the Exelon Takeover of Pepco

    Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work tes­ti­fied in D.C. against Exelon ener­gy cor­po­ra­tion’s takeover of Pep­co, elec­tric ser­vice provider to Wash­ing­ton, D.C. and Maryland.  This takeover is a bad deal for the Dis­trict of Colum­bia and is not in the pub­lic inter­est. It would hit DC ratepay­ers with high­er elec­tric­i­ty bills, would under­mine renew­able ener­gy and would not…