California Scheming: Rural county officials diving into the wood pellet business
A proposal for two massive wood pellet plants in northern California is being hyped as a “forest resiliency” project
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Senate Legislation Cedes the US Forest Carbon Sink to the Biomass Industry – Even as Forests Are Already Declining
We all know burning trees drives climate change, but Senate legislation now being considered would dictate that burning more trees does not increase carbon pollution.
Trees, Trash, and Toxics: How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal
Lax regulations allowing contaminated wastes to be burned as biomass mean that communities need to protect themselves – they can’t count on air permits to minimize bioenergy pollution.
Biopower in CA: do claims about forest thinning and emissions hold up?
Plans for forest thinning and biopower in California would require logging millions of forest acres per year. Is this really the state’s “carbon free” renewable energy plan?
