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"Fiscal Cliff" deal includes $12 billion in Production Tax Credits for wind projects that begin in 2013

Everpower in Allegany: ding-dong the witch is dead

NY Public Service Commission poised to pull the plug on Galloo Islands wind farm; judge says there's no need for its electricity

Toronto Sun: why industrial wind power is not green

How to Get Out of Your Lease, by Penn State Cooperative Extension, Coudersport Vol. Fire Hall, 171 Route 6, Nov. 29, 6:00-8:30 PM

low frequency noise from wind farms causing a "public health crisis" in Australia

Iberdrola reports defects in the concrete poured for several of the wind turbine foundations at its Hardscrabble wind farm (Herkimer Co.)

Shale Gas Lease Public Forum at Little Valley Memorial Library, Nov. 26

fracking banned by two NY towns

oil spill near Olean drinking water plant

protests over wind farms in Ontario, Canada

Dutch government bans land-based wind farms: they're too ugly

a natural gas compressor station in southern Pennsylvania exploded overnight Thursday, prompting the evacuation of about 150 people

Former NYS Trooper speaks out after fleeing his retirement home in PA

Vice President Biden says the future will demand cities that produce all the energy they consume

Pa. Health Secretary Eli Avila: "We're really at the frontiers" of understanding illnesses in communities near heavy drilling in the Marcellus shale

counties could be on the hook if wind developers can't make their PILOT payments

An American family blog: living with wind turbines

Cohocton wind farmer finds turbine noise too much to bear

People's land taken by eminent domain for a wind farm in Prattsburgh

DEC needs to expand the scope of study of horizontal hydrofracking impacts - sign-on letter available

Great Lakes Wind Truth, on NYPA's plan for 166 wind turbines in Lake Erie or Lake Ontario: "As I studied wind energy and the proposal, I found there is absolutely no net benefits for Erie County . . . This wind folly only benefits big foreign companies. It does nothing for the little guy. There are no long-term jobs."

Wisconsin halts state siting regulations, gives power to site wind farms back to communities

over the next two decades renewable energy mandates will cut national income by $2,400 per year for a family of four

As wind farms begin defacing its mountains, Maine questions the wisdom of its pro-wind policy

Wind Power Story In Cape Vincent, New York (YouTube)

Off-shore wind farms are getting a boost, both in the Great Lakes and on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf.

where was wind power during last week's scorcher?

Three NY wind farms bite the dust:
(1) Golisano's project in Alfred
(2) Iberdrola's Horse Creek project in Cape Vincent

(3) E.On Netz project in Hartsville

NYISO says more wind power means a less reliable electricity grid in NY

John Muir Trust comes out against land-based wind farms

Boston TV news reporter reverses support for Cape Wind because ratepayers will pay over twice as much for electricity

Congress to intervene to allow Lake Erie offshore wind

British government: "It is socially unacceptable to be against wind turbines in your area"

Marcellus shale gas drilling: DEC is being asked to go back to the drawing board, by EPA and environmentalists

Portville Planning Board public informational meeting on Marcellus drilling: April 7

Wind farms: Cattaraugus County IDA comes in for serious criticism

Stop dumping on us! --a new web site targets state hazardous waste landfill plan and CWM in Niagara County

Oregon curbs tax breaks for wind farms

Laidlaw takes its biomass idea to Massachusetts

Ashford proposes allowing 50 decibels and 1,000 ft. setback from homes

Machias draft wind farm regulations

help achieve a ban on sewage sludge applied to farmland

Allegany and Carrollton being eyed by Bismarck Wind of Germany

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives

federal appeals court approves DOE's delay in West Valley cleanup

Demonstration at West Valley site on September 1

Where's the plan? Federal research into large turbines for the first time starts in September

failure to generate jobs reduces PILOT payments from Maple Ridge Wind Farm by millions

Wisconsin Tax-Payers for a Better Renewable Energy Plan

Groups offer help with comments on West Valley cleanup

Bob Vila (This Old House) on "The Wind Turbine Controversy"

Cohocton wind farmer finds turbine noise too much to bear

Chipmonk residents hope the wind changes

recyclable corn plastic

Cohocton wind farmer regrets allowing turbines on his land due to noise

Support the Bigger Better Bottle Bill

Casella proposes novel plan to turn plastics in trash to gas and energy in Ontario County

wind turbine collapses at Noble's Altona, NY wind farm

Congressional candidate Eric Massa speaks out: private garbage companies are hijacking our public resources

Plastic can't be recycled; where does it go?

loophole for waste-transfer stations is plugged

climate change experts losing faith in conventional renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar to address global climate change

NYC Mayor will not implement new e-waste rules

Wind Energy will be an early test of Obama's White House Staff

Europeans ask for a continent-wide moratorium on wind farms

Westfield-Ripley wind farm project launched

Finally: urban wind turbines, no transmission lines, no propellers

Environmentalists need to re-think wind energy

Dr. Nina Pierpont radio interview: setbacks of one mile or more needed to protect health

location of all windfarm proposals upstate

Bush Administration Covered Up Over 500 Blocked Water Pollution Cases

Everpower begins visual impact study in Allegany

Wind is Expensive, Unreliable and Won’t Save Natural Gas

UK exceeds target to recycle and recover energy from 67% of its packaging waste

Dr. Nina Pierpont: peer reviews of her research on "Wind Turbine Syndrome"

Congressional candidate Eric Massa speaks out: private garbage companies are hijacking our public resources

NYS Legislature to consider 18 month moratorium on industrial wind plants until a Task Force reports on problems

Citizen coalition files anti-trust complaint against wind energy companies A complaint filed by a coalition of 94 citizens from New York, Vermont, and other states with the U.S. Department of Justice alleges an international cartel in cooperation with local town officials throughout New York and the New England states is violating antitrust law by engaging in price fixing, bid rigging and allocating the market among the companies so as to eliminate competition. Click here for the coalition's Press Release and Complaint.

Six months after the U.S. Supreme Court speaks, even industry agrees: local flow control legislation is legal

California bans from trash: lights, batteries, electronics, mercury-containing switches, treated wood, paints, solvents, photo waste, automobile fluids

Flow control battle in Pennsylvania

Farmersville landfill proposal on its last gasp? County takes IWS's land for back taxes

New law allows states to stop railroads from siting waste facilities; waste industry supports the action

Hakes Landfill (Steuben Co.) gets permit to permit to expand from 300K to 450K tons/yr.: Casella wins big

New York City to haul Bronx waste by rail: 2,100 tons per day to be shipped out of state

In Europe all businesses must pretreat waste before disposal: 2002 Landfill Directive matures

Allegany wind power plant law: Town Board limits noise to 3 decibel increase town-wide

Town of Carrollton poised to adopt new wind law

Now you can get paid to recycle

A Household Guide to Building Green: Citizens Environmental Coalition publishes an on line guide to alternative power, design and building supplies

What you can do to reduce greenhouse gases

Are landfill gas-to-energy plants producing "green energy"? No.

Higher disposal costs are reinvigorating recycling programs. Now you can get paid to recycle.

Electronics waste accounts for only two percent of America’s MSW waste stream, but up to 70 percent of the toxicity in that waste.

The Consumer Electronics Association estimates that 304 million electronics were removed from American households in 2005, with two-thirds of those items still in working order.

Phase out PVC plastic: focus on Target retail stores

New report: radioactive waste from nuclear weapons facilities is being released to regular landfills

Comments requested: EPA wants to redefine "solid waste" to allow certain hazardous materials in MSW landfills

Incineration or landfilling? Niagara-Hamilton (Ontario) debates the choice

Chemung Co. Landfill plans major expansion

Perseverence pays off: Town of Albion defeats Waste Management in NY high court

CONGRESS MAY ACT: waste-to-rail loophole needs to be plugged

Sen. Young & Cong. Kuhl to discuss promoting ethanol plants: April 14 at 9:15 AM at Delevan-Yorkshire Public Library

TOWN SUPPORTS WOOD-CHIP GAS PLANT BUT NOT INCINERATION: Corinth town board bans trash-burning plants

EPA proposes new definition of solid waste: proposal aims to promote recycling hazardous materials

HELP FOR COMMUNITIES INTERESTED IN SMART GROWTH: EPA assistance is available

NY GOV. SPITZER'S ENVIRONMENTAL APPOINTMENTS: good news

ANGELICA'S HYLAND LANDFILL GETS A 48-ACRE EXPANSION: proposal would fill ravine and stream

ROUTE 219 FREEWAY TO PETERS ROAD: NYSDEC considers whether wetland and stream destruction is justified

SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT'S FLOW CONTROL POWERS: will local control be preserved?

CCCC AND MEADOWNBROOK COLONY SUE OLEAN AND ALLEGANY: Giardini gravel mine approvals challenged

WEST VALLEY: demolition debris coming to Olean?

Tickeltown Trust & Trade: Alternative Holiday Gift Fair, 10 AM to 4:30 PM Saturday, 12/2

DEC PROPOSES WASTE-BY-RAIL EXEMPTION: transfer stations on rail lines would need no state permit

ELLICOTTVILLE INCINERATOR PROPOSAL: Planning Board meets August 28 to consider the proposal

EPA WITHDRAWS OBJECTIONS TO ROUTE 219 FREEWAY PROJECT: EPA succumbs to political pressure, leaves record of serious concerns

IOWA RESTRICTS GROWTH OF FACTORY FARMS: environmental agency responds to record high construction of livestock confinements

NEW YORK CITY WASTE: Mayor plans to improve the flow of waste with marine transfer stations

HORIZON and AURORA DAIRY PRODUCTS ARE NOT ORGANIC: Their products are coming from factory farm feedlots.

NORTH CAROLINA BANS LANDFILLS: Both houses of the state legislature adopted for a least one year a ban on new landfills.

CASELLA MOVES AGAINST ELMIRA:

city transfer station would close

MILLENIUM PIPELINE: public comment period opens

CONGRESS WANTS GARBAGE BY RAIL TO BE EXEMPT FROM LOCAL APPROVAL: House debate May 23

WEST VALLEY: EPA urges Dept. of energy to dig up contaminated tanks

ZOAR VALLEY: new protections proposed

WEST VALLEY: Coalition on WV Nuclear Wastes goes to court to stop reclassification of high-level nuclear wastes

SENECA MEADOWS PROPOSES TO ADD A NEW 178-ACRE LANDFILL: public meeting May 16

CASELLA'S HAKES C&D LANDFILL IN CAMPBELL, NY: proposal would increase area 23 acres and height 89 feet

WAL-MART IN ALLEGANY: will community impacts be considered?

ELLICOTTVILLE INCINERATOR PROPOSAL: EPA finalizes new rules for small incinerators

Peak Wet Weather Discharges from Municipal Sewage Treatment Facilities

NEW BALTIMORE, NY, SAYS NO: Dick Penfold's new dump proposal turned away

RODMAN REJECTS CASELLA: North Country town doesn't trust them

CHEMUNG COUNTY GIVES UP ITS LANDFILL TO CASELLA: same old

TOWN OF ALBION BAN ON LANDFILLS UPHELD: Waste Management lawsuit dismissed

OHIO LANDFILL HOST COMMUNITY POISONED BY HYDROGEN SULFIDE: EPA and ATSDR take action

EPA SEEKS COMMUNITY INPUT ON GOWANDA LANDFILL CLEANUP: Public meeting August 10, 2005 at 7:00 p.m at Gowanda Central H.S.

EPA ASKS FOR COMMUNITY INPUT TO ADDRESS CONTAMINATED SOIL AND GROUND WATER IN LITTLE VALLEY: TCE plume to Salamanca

NEW STATE BOTTLE BILL PROPOSED: Assembly passes, now goes to the Senate

FARMERSVILLE TASK FORCE: The County's Task Force met Thurs., April 21, 2005, at the Farmersville Town Hall. Chairman Jerry Burrell disspelled rumors that the County wants to site its own dump in Farmersville, noting the resources have been dedicated to continue to oppose the project in the DEC permit proceeding despite budget pressures. Mr. Burrell also clarified that, while 1997 state grant money to purchase the dump site for a park had to be returned, the County has not abandoned the plan for a park in Farmersville.

SEALAND WASTE PROPOSES NEW LANDFILL IN TOWN OF CARROLL: why we think the effort is futile

CASELLA MOVING IN ON CHEMUNG COUNTY: privatization of public landfill in the works

DEC IS ABOUT TO LET POLLUTERS REPLACE DEC MONITORS: Take action here

BFI PROPOSES LANDFILL #8 FOR NIAGARA FALLS: comment period ends March 7

ALCOA WILL MIX HAZARDOUS WASTE WITH CEMENT: the company says it's "recycling"

DEC ORDERS CLEANUP OF PERSIA TIRE DUMP: David Wilder charged with illegal stockpile

PILGRIMAGE TO THE WATER: images of Farmersville

LEWIS COUNTY LANDFILL falls to Casella