Climate-critical land carbon sink is rapidly declining, while harvesting and burning wood for biomass energy continues to grow
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Massachusetts Senate bill removes woody biomass from two flagship state energy programs.
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It turns out the state listened to the air quality arguments, after all.
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Canadian citizen joins suit against Korean government alleging irreparable harm to forests and climate from use of British Columbia wood pellets
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Proposed legislation throws a lifeline to a biomass plant developers keep trying to build in an environmental justice community in Springfield MA
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Paying people to burn wood for energy and simply counting the emissions as zero, as the EU now does, is hollowing out forests and actually increasing GHG emissions. Stopping this practice is essential climate mitigation – which is what we desperately need.
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Campuses are outsourcing energy planning to private companies pushing biomass and natural gas as clean and green
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Join us to see the film that’s got everyone talking about the biomass and wood pellet industries, and hear about the lawsuit filed against the European Union for treating burning trees as “zero-emissions.”
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If the Baker administration gets their way, more so-called “clean energy” in MA will come from burning garbage and biomass
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The groups urge residents to turn out to rescheduled June 5th hearing on regulatory rollback of MA biomass rules
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