Virginia and North Carolina Show Domestic Biopower the Exits
Over the past 6 months, two southeastern states, Virginia and North Carolina, have taken landmark actions to ensure that dirty, destructive forest biomass for e...
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Cutting Down Forests Is Not a Climate Solution
The case for biomass energy, such as it was, collapsed in 2018. While we have long argued that uprooting forests and burning the wood for electricity makes no s...
U.S. Senate Must Reject Forest Biomass Rider
Last week the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill that includes language that would do...
Full Scientific Advisory Board Rejects Flawed Biomass Proposal
Carbon emissions from burning forest biomass will have real consequences for climate in the near term—and not just some distant future 100 years from now...
EPA's Model Trading Rule Should Draw a Line at the Forest
In August, the EPA issued its landmark Clean Power Plan (CPP) aimed at reducing emissions from stationary sources of power, including plants that burn biomass...
EPA's Clean Power Plan Rule Signals Concerns About Biomass
The EPA's final Clean Power Plan is a game-changer. It's an unprecedented turning point in the fight to combat climate change, and an enormous step against the...