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New Report: Biomass Electricity: Clean Energy Subsidies for a Dirty Industry

On November 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In News, Report

Biomass Electricity: Clean Energy Subsidies for a Dirty Industry The case for ending taxpayer and rate-payer subsidies that harm public health, environment, climate, and forest  Download Report: Biomass Electricity Report.pdf

 

  Speakers: Meg Sheehan, attorney, Biomass Accountability Project; William Sammons, M.D., pediatrician with expertise on health and fiscal impacts; Mary Booth, PhD, founder, [...]

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The Biomass Monitor – January 2012

On January 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, The Biomass Monitor, The Biomass Monitor (Issues)

THE BIOMASS MONITOR – January 2012

[eNewsletter] | [PDF] In this issue: -One Florida Biomass Proposal Down, One to Go  -NY Dumps Trash as Renewable Energy -Report: Incinerators Burden Taxpayers -Study: EPA Rules Save $82 Billion -Forest Die-off and Biomass in Texas -Emerald Ash Borer and Biomass
…and more!

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Gulf County, FL Biomass Opponents File Three Legal Challenges

On December 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, News

Press Release

http://www.gulfbiomassincinerator.org/

December 22, 2011

 

Three legal challenges have been filed to stop the Rentech, LLC biomass incinerator planned for in Port St. Joe, Florida.  On December 19, six Port St. Joe residents filed two separate lawsuits in circuit court seeking to rescind the City of Port St. Joe development order issued [...]

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Forest Die-off and Biomass Power in Texas [The Biomass Monitor]

On December 22, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Blog, News, The Biomass Monitor

- by Josh Schlossberg

(source: Jim Forsyth, Reuters, Dec. 20, 2011)

Over half a billion trees have died in Texas due to drought over the past year, according to the Texas Forest Service. “In 2011, Texas experienced an exceptional drought, prolonged high winds, and record-setting temperatures,” said Forest Service Sustainable Forestry chief Burl Carraway.

[...]

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Emerald Ash Borer and Biomass [The Biomass Monitor]

On December 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, News, The Biomass Monitor

- by Josh Schlossberg

The emerald ash borer (EAB) continues to spread across the eastern U.S., threatening the future of the tree species, with experts fearing the ash could go the way of the elm over the coming decades. While federal and state agencies and environmental groups have launched education campaigns discouraging the transportation of [...]

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One Florida Biomass Proposal Down, One to Go [The Biomass Monitor]

On December 12, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Blog, News, The Biomass Monitor

- by Josh Schlossberg

Nov. 30, 2011: A 55-megawatt biomass power proposal for Port St. Joe, FL has been withdrawn by the developer Rentech, as a civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) charging the Florida Department of Environmental Protection with environmental racism in granting the facility its air permit [...]

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Civil Rights Claim Filed over Port St. Joe, FL Biomass Incinerator

On December 9, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Blog, News

Nov. 30, 2011:  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been asked to investigate charges of environmental racism by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection which has issued an air pollution permit for a biomass incinerator in Port St. Joe, Florida. The complaint follows up on an “intent to sue” notice filed in 2009.

The biomass [...]

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Springfield, MA City Council Appeals Biomass Power Building Permits

On December 8, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Blog, News

By Peter Goonan, The Republican 

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/springfield_city_council_appro_10.html

SPRINGFIELD – The City Council voted 9-2 Wednesday to file an appeal seeking to overturn two building permits granted last month to 

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VIDEO: Gainesville, FL Police Remove Biomass Opponents From Public Property

On December 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, News

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x9kEuOJXjI

On December 5, 2011 Gainesville, Florida city police, at the behest of Gainesville Regional Utilities officials, warned three citizens that they would be arrested if they continued to stand on GRU property and talk with GRU customers about the coming GREC biomass-rate-hikes, and about opportunities for participating in the political process to seek [...]

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The Biomass Monitor – December 2011

On December 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, The Biomass Monitor, The Biomass Monitor (Issues)

THE BIOMASS MONITOR – December 2011 [eNewsletter] | [PDF] In this issue: -Massachusetts Poised to Slash Biomass Power Subsidies -City Defends Biomass Moratorium in Vancouver, WA -Two Biomass Proposals Axed in Indiana -American Academy of Family Physicians Opposes Biomass Burning -Study: Logging Forests for Bioenergy Worsens Climate Change -Greenpeace Trashes Biomass -Please Donate [...]

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Citizen Victory in Port St. Joe, FL: Developer Withdraws Biomass Incinerator

On November 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, News

Port St. Joe, FL citizens declare victory in fight against Rentech biomass power incinerator!

Investors unwilling to support risky venture.

Opponents vow to continue fight against toxic legacy left behind by polluting corporation.

(More details as they emerge…)

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