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
Clean-Power-Plan
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.
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.
RGGI’s failure to count biomass CO2 means emissions “reductions” are dramatically overstated
Our analysis of RGGI’s own projections for CO2 emissions shows that if biomass CO2 were counted, actual emissions could be more than 40% higher than are currently projected.
Interpreting the Biomass Power Association’s Complaints: An Annotated Guide
The Biomass Power Association wants Massachusetts to rescind regulations on biomass power plants and go back to a system of paying them to pollute because these highly carbon-intensive facilities can’t meet the state’s standards.
Biomass in the Clean Power Plan: More Accountability, But Still Considered “Zero-Emissions”
Emission reductions should be “quantifiable, verifiable, non-duplicative, permanent and enforceable.” Is this even possible with biomass?
White House threatens veto of EPA appropriations bill due to riders, including bioenergy carbon neutrality provision
Legislating biomass as carbon neutral is dumb and dangerous. Apparently the White House agrees.
Coalition calls on White House to take wood-burning power plants out of plan for reducing greenhouse emissions
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.
Letter from Rep. Connolly (VA) to EPA: Treating bioenergy as carbon neutral may undermine the Clean Power Plan
Treating biomass as carbon-neutral may have unintended consequences that could actually undermine and inhibit our ability to reduce carbon emissions.
