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April 7 Webinar: The threat to forests and climate from burning forest biomass

Mobilizing comments to the EU on the 2030 Climate Target Initiative

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Climate Week 2019 Screenings of “Burned: Are Trees the New Coal?”

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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Climate Week NYC Screenings of “Burned: Are Trees the New Coal?”

Come see the award-winning documentary on bioenergy in its NYC debut, and join the filmmakers and scientists for a discussion afterward.

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Your one-stop shop for the latest fire science

Thinning forests to reduce fire risk makes sense around structures, but is counterproductive in the backcountry

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“Threatened Forests”: Incredible film documents forest destruction by Enviva, other bioenergy producers

Irrefutable evidence of the forest destruction by the wood pellet industry.

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Briefing: Forest and Climate Impacts of Biomass Energy

Slides from PFPI’s portion of April 6 briefing on biomass energy, hosted by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey’s office.

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Webinar slides: Bioenergy Loopholes in the Clean Power Plan, and How to Avoid Them

Wood-burning power plants and waste incinerators emit more CO2 than coal plants, so why is EPA allowing bioenergy and waste incineration in the Clean Power Plan?

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Webinar Nov 4 & Nov 5: Bioenergy and Waste-burning Loopholes in the Clean Power Plan (and How to Avoid Them)

Want to know how you can influence your state’s implementation of the Clean Power Plan to ensure that the Plan actually reduces emissions of CO2 and other pollutants?

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WEBINAR slides: The Role of Biomass in the Clean Power Plan – EPA’s Accounting Punt and Emerging Threats to Forests

EPA’s proposal to ignore bioenergy emissions is a disaster for forests and the climate – join us to find out why.

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Dispelling the myth of clean, green biomass power

How did something that emits so much conventional pollution, and more greenhouse gases than coal, come to be incentivized as “green” energy?

Air Pollution, All posts, Announcements, Biomass basics, Carbon emissions, Forests