Allowing states to co-fire biomass with coal will undermine the main objective of increasing coal plant efficiency
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Co-firing biomass with coal will increase emissions, decrease power plant efficiency, and increase forest destruction, to boot.
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Legislating that biomass energy has no carbon pollution is legislating a lie.
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Burning shredded tires and pesticide-treated railroad ties, the L’Anse Warden plant is allowed by its permit to emit more pollution than Michigan’s coal plants.
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Emission reductions should be “quantifiable, verifiable, non-duplicative, permanent and enforceable.” Is this even possible with biomass?
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There’s really no better way to sabotage the Clean Power Plan than by burning up the forest carbon sink in power plants and then treating the electricity generated as if it has zero emissions.
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“I share the concern that Virginia will become known as a state that harvests forests to reduce its dependence on coal, rather than one that develops renewable technologies that clearly reduce emissions, such as solar and wind”
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It’s time to stop referring to this dirty, environmentally destructive industry as “clean” energy, and start calling it what it is – an obscenity.
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The facility, which received millions in federal clean energy funding, has a “Don’t ask don’t tell” policy for fuel contamination
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Treating biomass as carbon-neutral may have unintended consequences that could actually undermine and inhibit our ability to reduce carbon emissions.
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