What does “renewable energy” policy in Manchester, England and Lithonia, Georgia, have in common? Here’s what: authorities in both communities are promoting polluting, high-emissions biomass power as “clean” energy, even though air pollution in both communities is already at unhealthy levels. Both facilities would burn construction and demolition wood, meaning that not only will they emit particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide at the same or higher levels than a coal plant, but they’ll emit heavy metals like arsenic and cadmium, too.