Trump Coal Power Plan Could Increase Use of Forest Biomass as Coal Replacement
Allowing states to co-fire biomass with coal will undermine the main objective of increasing coal plant efficiency
carbon-neutrality
Pruitt’s parting shot: a Clean Power Plan that will actually increase CO2 emissions
Co-firing biomass with coal will increase emissions, decrease power plant efficiency, and increase forest destruction, to boot.
Virginia should cover wood-burning power plants under its carbon plan
Exempting wood-burning plants and the industrial sector will leave about a quarter of the state’s emissions unregulated
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.
Massachusetts Legislature Should Put the Brakes on Bad Biomass Regs
The regulations allow unprecedented double-dipping of renewable energy subsidies by polluting bioenergy
PFPI, Allies Call Out Greenwashing During So-Called “Clean Energy Week”
Because Clean Energy Doesn’t Come Out of a Smokestack
Calling Out UK Bioenergy Myths, Facing Realities
How the UK Can Save Forests, the Climate, and Piles of Money
Groups Urge Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to Count Biomass Carbon Pollution
RGGI should assess whether millions of tons of uncounted carbon pollution from wood-burning power plants undercut efforts on climate.
New analysis of government data finds burning wood for electricity will undermine Clean Power Plan
The Energy Information Administration found biomass will displace solar energy, not coal, if classified as “carbon neutral” in the Clean Power Plan.
Thank you, President Obama, for recognizing biomass isn’t “carbon neutral”
The White House strongly objects to language in the House Appropriations Bill that would compel EPA to treat wood-burning power plants as if they emit zero carbon pollution.
