Drax Purchase Would Implicate the United Kingdom in Loss of Canadian Forests
The operator of the world’s largest wood-burning power station is doubling down on its destructive wood-burning business model....
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We Can Transform U.S. Industry
In its detailed and ambitious report, the Select Committee offers dozens of solutions and policy recommendations. If implemented, these recommendations would me...
House Climate Crisis Action Plan Gets a Lot Right on Biomass
Established science now shows that burning biomass from forests for electricity is not a climate solution within timeframes relevant to addressing climate chang...
More Land Use for Bioenergy Risks People and Planet
A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on climate change and land use sounds the alarm about the risks of turning large swaths o...
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...
You Can’t Be a Climate Leader and Burn Trees for Electricity
The UK needs to reverse course and end its massive subsidies for wood-fired electricity generation now if the country is going to help the world avoid warming o...