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  • New Biomass Power Facility on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula?

    - Sam Ali, Jan­u­ary 8, 2015, ABC 10 The Keweenaw Renew­able Ener­gy Coali­tion is one step clos­er to help­ing bring a solu­tion to the ener­gy cri­sis in the Cop­per Country. Last night, KREC gath­ered experts in the log­ging and tim­ber indus­tries for a bio­mass work­ing ses­sion to dis­cuss the future of a pos­si­ble 11-megawatt bio­mass elec­tric…

  • 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…

  • Southwest Airlines to Use Forest Biofuels

    - by Ter­ry Max­on, Decem­ber 31, 2014, Dal­las Morn­ing News South­west Air­lines announced Wednes­day that it plans to buy some bio­fu­els made from waste wood, for use in its San Fran­cis­co Bay air­ports begin­ning in two years. To use South­west­’s phras­ing, it is pur­chas­ing “low car­bon renew­able jet fuel, made using for­est residues that will help reduce the risk…

  • Ohio Bioenergy Corporation Owes Over $50K in Taxes, Fees

    - by David E. Mal­loy, Decem­ber 29, 2014, Her­ald Dispatch Bio­mass, a Ken­tucky-based com­pa­ny that owns the for­mer South Point Ethanol prop­er­ty adja­cent to The Point indus­tri­al park, will have to pay more than $53,000 in back tax­es, penal­ties and costs by Jan. 27 to main­tain the 78-acre parcel. Lawrence Coun­ty Pros­e­cut­ing Attor­ney Brigham Ander­son filed…

  • Rim Fire Forests Fuel Biomass Energy

    - Decem­ber 29, 2014, The Recorder Near­ly 40,000 tons of for­est residue from the Rim Fire area in Tuolumne Coun­ty has been removed for use to gen­er­ate bio­mass ener­gy, accord­ing to the U.S. Agri­cul­ture Department. Mean­while, the USDA said it has made funds avail­able to help Cal­i­for­nia landown­ers con­serve nat­ur­al resources dam­aged or threat­ened as a…

  • Biofuel Hell

    - by Richard Adri­an Reese, Feb­ru­ary 17, 2013, Wild Ances­tors I keep hav­ing night­mares about one pos­si­ble future: bio­fu­el hell.  Clear­ly, they are visions sent by ances­tral spir­its, and they are meant to be shared.  Per­haps they will inspire writ­ers, movie mak­ers, and oth­er cre­ative peo­ple to pro­duce heal­ing, mind-alter­ing work.  Per­haps they will inspire con­tem­pla­tion…

  • Will Energy Storage Plus Solar Inspire Customers to Abandon Utilities?

    - by Lisa Cohn, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2014, Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy Markets To hear the Rocky Moun­tain Insti­tute tell the sto­ry, it’s not a ques­tion of whether util­i­ty cus­tomers will start defect­ing from their util­i­ties in favor of off-grid solu­tions that involve ener­gy stor­age and solar ener­gy. It’s a ques­tion of when. Truth is, it’s already hap­pen­ing in Hawaii—where…

  • Destruction of Demand: How to Shrink Our Energy Footprint

    - by Richard Hein­berg, Novem­ber 4, 2014, Post Car­bon Institute The human econ­o­my is cur­rent­ly too big to be sus­tain­able. We know this because Glob­al Foot­print Net­work, which method­i­cal­ly tracks the rel­e­vant data, informs us that human­i­ty is now using 1.5 Earths’ worth of resources. We can tem­porar­i­ly use resources faster than Earth regen­er­ates them only by…

  • Air Pollution: Clean Up Our Skies

    - by Julia Schmale, Novem­ber 19, 2014, Nature In Decem­ber, the world’s atten­tion will fall on cli­mate-change nego­ti­a­tions at the 20th Unit­ed Nations Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change (UNFCCC) Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties in Lima, Peru. The empha­sis will be on reduc­ing emis­sions of long-term atmos­pher­ic dri­vers such as car­bon diox­ide, the effects of which will…

  • Keep Corporate Polluters at Bay, Please Donate Today!

    Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work is one of the few nation­al non­prof­its in the U.S. orga­niz­ing with grass­roots com­mu­ni­ties to say NO! to all forms of dirty ener­gy, from fracked gas, to coal plants, to bio­mass and waste incin­er­a­tion, to nuclear power. Over 2014, we have raised $89,700 from indi­vid­ual donors, only $10,300 away from our goal of $100,000! Will you…