Environment Forum

Global environmental challenges

Burning tires is most definitely renewable

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– Rich Trzupek is a chemist and principal consultant at Mostardi Platt Environmental. He also writes for bigjournalism.com and frontpagemag.com on science, the environment and politics. The views expressed here are his own. –

Thanks to federal and state incentive programs, renewable energy is more prized and more profitable than ever.

Wind and solar energy are the best known forms of renewable power, but they don’t wholly define this particular universe.

Biomass combustion, hydroelectric power and geothermal derived energy all fall under the Department of Energy’s official definition of renewable energy.

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