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EU climate, nature and air quality goals are in jeopardy because of wood-burning for energy, new study shows

Climate-critical land carbon sink is rapidly declining, while harvesting and burning wood for biomass energy continues to grow

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Higher Ed Partnerships with Energy Co’s Lock in Decades of High Emissions, Greenwash

Campuses are outsourcing energy planning to private companies pushing biomass and natural gas as clean and green

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The scammy, whammy world of the “bioeconomy” – a warning to regulators on National Bioenergy Day

The feds at the OSTP want input on the bioeconomy. Boy are there some stories to tell… because the biomass energy and bioeconomy sectors seem especially prone to fraud.

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New report reveals negative community and financial impacts of bioenergy boom

The elite group of plants receiving hundreds of millions in taxpayer handouts had cost overruns, air and water violations, early closures, and lawsuits.

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The IPCC’s Recipe for a Livable Planet: Grow Trees, Don’t Burn Them

Only one pathway avoids dangerous temperature rise without relying on unscalable and unproven technologies.

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New Study: Biomass Energy Has Big Climate Impact Even Under Best Case Scenario

Burning wood for power undermines efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, even under industry best-case scenarios.

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Bloomberg-backed Corporate Reporting Standards Likely to Perpetuate Myths that Bioenergy is Clean, Carbon-Neutral

Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Disclosure Rules Should be Improved so that Companies Do Not Mislead Investors

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Massachusetts tops New England in air pollution from wood burning

Why is the State of Massachusetts offering incentives for wood heating when wood burners are already a major source of air pollution in Massachusetts?

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DOE’s “Billion Ton” Biomass Report – We read it so you wouldn’t have to

Despite requiring clearcutting of millions of forest acres per year, the Department of Energy declines to assess carbon pollution impacts from a biofueled economy.

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Climate reality check…

Recent federal legislation has directed the Environmental Protection Agency to treat biomass energy as carbon neutral.

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