By Alyssa A. Lappen and Jack Lauber
Times Union | Sunday, December 3, 2006

Eliot Spitzer, listen up.

California, which has the nation’s toughest environmental laws, has just unveiled its “Roadmap for the the Development of Biomass.” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seeks to boost California’s wind, solar and biomass projects, and to eventually extract 22 percent of California’s energy feedstocks from urban wastes.

Last March, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously adopted a 20-year-plan to re-engineer its garbage disposal system and switch to waste-to-energy, eliminating transport costs and pollution.

The New York City Council, by contrast, adopted a garbage-export plan last July. Rather than harness trash to generate energy, New York City taxpayers will continue to export garbage, and pollution risks, at a cost of more than $600 million a year for residential trash alone. Continue reading “Waste not” →

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