Should we turn California trees into wood pellets to be burned in foreign power plants? That’s the proposal being brought ...

Global demand for forest biomass is surging, but the financial incentives offered to projects that burn wood for electricity ...

Critics call biomass a false climate solution because wood burns dirtier than coal and the world is already facing a global deforestation crisis. In addition to the pollution caused by burning pellets ...

District Supervisor Rex Bohn, who sits on the board of Golden State Natural Resources — the organization proposing two wood ...

The Golden State Natural Resource — a rural county-founded nonprofit agency — wants two wood pellet processing plants in ...

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Much of the biomass from forests destroyed for wood pellets has been sent to South Korea and Japan Enormous swathes of ...

Heavy trucks roll toward a semiremote coastline here on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island before idling alongside a waiting barge, ...

Modern wood stoves can be safe, affordable, and efficient provided you conduct regular cleaning and professional maintenance. Because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says about 65 ...

A 2023 study, for example, found that wood pellet mills emit 2.8 times more pollution than coal and oil-burning power plants on average. The mills emit 55 toxic pollutants ranging from nitrogen ...

Nearly all of the biomass from forests destroyed for wood pellet production since 2021 ... such as using waste and crop residue rather than converting forest land to grow bioenergy crops.

Enormous swathes of pristine forest are being cut down across Indonesia to supply the rapidly rising international demand for biomass material seen as critical to many countries’ transitions to ...