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A really bad piece of 2021 legislation in Virginia – ‘Advanced Recycling’
The 2021 Virginia legislature passed a really bad compromise piece of “environmental” legislation. They swapped a styrofoam ban for extremely polluted air, water, and land. Instead of…
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Incinerator Misinformation – Pyrolysis & Gasification
This misinformed effort to pretend that some types of incinerators aren’t incinerators has been laid to rest repeatedly, but the confusion still persists. The numbers below in brackets (e.g., )…
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Incinerators – The Dirty Truth
Facts Rule Out Trash Gasification (Including pyrolysis, plasma arc, and other variations of staged incineration) – Clean Water Action [and Don’t Waste Massachusetts, Energy Justice, EcoCycle and the Global…
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An Industry Blowing Smoke – Need Help Understanding Terminology?
http://www.no-burn.org/downloads/BlowingSmokeReport.pdf Are you looking for definitions for all the big, foreign words in the incinerator industry? Through myth-busting explanations and clarifications, this report explains the awful effects…
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The Story of Stuff – A Video that Ties Things Together
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. It exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental…
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OSHA Material Safety Data Sheet: Tire Derived Oil
http://www.conradind.com/pi_tire_derived_oil_msds.asp OSHA requires chemical reporting on potentially hazardous materials through Material Safety Data Sheets. The MSDA on tire-derived oil reveals a nasty list of the hazardous effects of tire…
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Citizen Voice Concerns about Stafford Incinerator
http://news.fredericksburg.com/staffordnews/2013/08/08/eep-replies-to-citizen-concerns-about-waste-to-energy-proposal-in-email/ Energy Extraction Partners, a subsidiary of CES, attempts to explain why a tire incinerator would be a good thing for Stafford County. The company repeatedly makes unsubstantiated claims about…
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Partnership for Policy Integrity
http://pfpi.net/ This site has a wealth of knowledge about energy policies. PFPI uses science, policy analysis, and strategic communications to promote sound energy policy.
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Biomass Incineration is DIRTY Energy
http://www.energyjustice.net/biomass Biomass incineration is one of the most expensive, inefficient and polluting ways to make energy — even dirtier than coal in some ways. Forests are destroyed,…
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