BREDL Fact Sheets

Asphalt Plant Flyer Fact Sheets - BREDL fact sheets on individual asphalt plants in our region.

BREDL FACT SHEET - Clean Air Act Title V Permits

June 2010: The Case Against Plasma Arc Waste Incineration: The St. Lucie Geoplasma facility - View BREDL Factsheet

Jan. 31, 2010: BREDL Factsheet: Pollution of the Air, Soil and Water by South Atlantic Galvanizing

Sept. 10, 2009: The MXI Environmental Services ethanol plant in Abingdon plans to expand operations. DEQ's new air permit if approved would allow huge increases in emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC). BREDL Factsheet: MXI's Ethanol Plant Pollution

August 2009: Are Biosolids safe for our farmlands and food? BREDL Biosolids Factsheet

August 2009: BREDL Biomass Factsheet

July 2009: Since 1987 Plant Vogtle has generated electric power. Today, two nuclear reactors operate at the site on banks of the Savannah River in Burke County, Georgia. Now Southern Company wants to add two more nuclear reactors. But the two existing reactors have placed an unfair burden on residents. More would be an environmental injustice. Here’s why. BREDL Factsheet

April 2009: Fib-rowatt Facts- It's time to tell the truth: BREDL Factsheet on Fibrowatt's proposal to build three poultry waste incinerators in North Carolina.

PERC Pollution at Peach Orchard Road - Toxic soil, water and air are a health hazard
April 2009: Ten years ago the Georgia Environmental Protection Division investigated the area near Peach Orchard, Lumpkin and Old Savannah roads and found widespread contamination. The pollutants they uncovered include PCE, TCE and vinyl chloride. These are toxic chemicals. For example, PCE, also known as perchloroethylene or PERC, can cause liver damage, kidney damage and cancer. View BREDL Factsheet

Aug. 2008: The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission has proposed a rule which would create a permanent exemption in the state’s health-protective toxic air pollution limits. The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League believes that the NC EMC has an obligation to protect the health of all our people by removing the Combustion Source Exemption. Meeting the state’s toxic air pollution limits at their property boundaries is not too much to expect from North Carolina’s electric utilities and manufacturing industries. A public hearing will be held this Fall. The time for us to organize is now. Contact BREDL for more information. BREDL Factsheet

Aug. 2008: BREDL Factsheet - Incinerator Pollution - Landfills in the sky
Montenay Charleston Resource Recovery, Inc. operates a mass burn incinerator in Charleston, SC.

May 2008: BREDL Factsheet - Farmers, Fertilizer & Fibrowatt

May 2008: BREDL Factsheet: Stop Incinerators and Waste-to-Energy Burners

May 2008 Factsheet: New Nuclear Power Plants in South Carolina? - Duke Energy has applied to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to build and operate two nuclear plants on the Broad River near Gaffney, South Carolina. The deadline for comments on environmental impacts of a nuclear power plant on this area’s air, water, and public health is May 20, 2008.

March 2008: BREDL Brochure - "Neighbor-to-Neighbor:" What Do You Think About Spreading Sewage Sludge on Farmland?

March 2008: BREDL Chapter Bellefonte Efficiency & Sustainability Team (BEST) fact sheet:
No to Bellefonte Nuclear Units, Yes to Energy Efficiency and Renewables

January 2008: National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Factsheet - Why NBAF is a weapons lab.

October 2007: Proposed Young & McQueen asphalt plant Factsheet - Young & McQueen are proposing an asphalt plant near Spruce Pine in Mitchell County, NC.

On July 31, 2007 the US Department of Homeland Security issued a Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for a National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. The NBAF would be a new defense research laboratory for biological warfare agents. Five sites are being considered: 1) Manhattan, Kansas, 2) Athens, Georgia, 3) San Antonio, Texas, 4) Butner, North Carolina and 5) Flora, Mississippi. A possible sixth site is also being considered on Plum Island, New York where a federal facility has operated for decades. BREDL Factsheet

August 30, 2007: Is Nuclear Power Right for Cherokee County? (Duke Power has selected a site in Cherokee County, near Gaffney, SC)

July 30, 2007: ASPHALT PLANTS - CONTAMINANTS OF CONCERN: An overview of 7 toxic substances released from asphalt processing facilities and their known effects on human health

July 17, 2007: FAQs about Sewer Sludge

July 11, 2007: (revised March 2008) Poultry power is dirtier than coal. Poultry Litter versus Coal-fired Power Plants: An Air Pollution Comparison - The graph illustrates the negative air pollution impacts of power plants powered by poultry litter compared with boilers fired by coal.

May 2007: Plutonium Fuel Fabrication Facility Environmental and Human Health Impacts Factsheet

April 2006: The Safe Energy Campaign Factsheet - On March 16, 2006 Duke Power Co. and Southern Co. announced that they had picked a site in South Carolina for a new nuclear power plant. Also, the power companies announced plans to seek early site permits for additional nuclear reactors at Oconee, SC and at a new site near Winston-Salem, NC.

March 21, 2006: Fibrowatt Factsheet - Fibrowatt LLC is considering locations in North Carolina for a 50 MW plant that burns poultry litter. Burning poultry litter creates unnecessary pollution and is inconsistent with NC GreenPower’s mission to promote renewable energy while protecting the environment.

March 16, 2006: Nuclear Power Licensing Factsheet - One-Step Licensing of Nuclear Plants Short-circuits Safety

Nov. 5, 2005: Toxic Air Pollution Levels in Canton, NC from Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc.

October 2005: An Overview of Polluting Industry Ordinances: The Wilkes County Model

Oct. 20, 2005: Analysis: Asphalt Plant versus Wood Stove Pollution - Comparing Apples and Hedgehogs (a household wood stove emits but a tiny fraction of the pollution emitted by an asphalt plant.)

May 2005: New Nuclear Plant Sites on the Yadkin River, NC?

April 2005: Proposed SW Virginia coal-fired power plant

Nov. 16, 2004: Renewable Energy Factsheet: Total Cost-Benefit Accounting for Electric Energy

Mar. 31, 2004: Strategic Planning: What it is and Why it matters

Mar. 24, 2004: Three Mile Island 25 years later, TMI facts - Three Mile Island VA?

Mar. 24, 2004: Nuclear Waste transport to Nevada? - Don' t Bet the Farm on it

Feb. 27, 2004: North Anna - New Nuclear Power Plants in Virginia?

Jan. 22, 2004: International Paper-Riegelwood Mill

Jan. 12, 2004: Plutonium Fuel

Oct. 20, 2003: Hydrogen Sulfide - The Human Health Effect of a Toxic Pollutant

Sept. 11, 2003: BREDL Factsheet on Waste Industries USA, Inc. which has operations throughout North Carolina and the Southeast.

Aug. 24, 2003: North Carolina Ridge Law Fact Sheet: NC Ridge Law is no obstacle to wind power.