Burn Notice: Massachusetts Expands Subsidies for Biomass Power Plants
As Baker’s new rules go into effect, advocates urge State Legislature to act.
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Enviro Advocates Call Out MA Gov. Baker For Promoting Dirty Fuels As Renewable Energy
If the Baker administration gets their way, more so-called “clean energy” in MA will come from burning garbage and biomass
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Springfield Groups Slam ENE for Peddling Polluting Palmer Power to Eastern Mass Munis
The groups urge residents to turn out to rescheduled June 5th hearing on regulatory rollback of MA biomass rules
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Rebutting MA Forest Alliance Claims About Bioenergy: Our Open Letter to Gov. Baker
MFA’s letter claims wood is “the peoples’ fuel,” but doctors and scientists seem to agree it’s best if those people don’t include children.
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Massachusetts Groups Urge Gov. Baker to Stop Using Public Funds to Subsidize Wood-Burning Energy
The Baker Administration is doling out large sums to bolster the logging industry at the expense of the climate
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Baker Administration Presses Forward with Weak Biomass Regs; Shuts Down Public Comment
DOER’s biomass regulations will unnecessarily increase greenhouse gas emission and air pollution.
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Massachusetts Legislature Should Put the Brakes on Bad Biomass Regs
The regulations allow unprecedented double-dipping of renewable energy subsidies by polluting bioenergy
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Massachusetts tops New England in air pollution from wood burning
Why is the State of Massachusetts offering incentives for wood heating when wood burners are already a major source of air pollution in Massachusetts?
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Letter from MA Groups to Congress: Don’t Legislate Bioenergy As Having Zero Pollution
Policy riders forcing EPA to treat wood-burning power plants as emitting zero carbon pollution defy climate science and the demonstrable fact that burning trees for power emits more carbon than coal or gas.
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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.
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