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Monster Enviva Wood Pellet Plants Invade Northeast NC Communities

Amanda Rodriguez

Date Icon March 12, 2014

Guest Post Written by Hope Taylor & Belinda Joyner of Clean Water for North Carolina In November of 2011, Enviva, a major corporate wood pellet producer…

Dogwood’s Danna is Up for a Conservation Award

Amanda Rodriguez

Date Icon March 10, 2014

Finalist Nominee for the Outstanding Conservationist Award Executive Director, Danna Smith, is a finalist for the honor Outstanding Conservationist at Wild South’s 6th Annual Roosevelt-Ashe Conservation…

Ending the Rush to Burn

Scot Quaranda

Date Icon February 28, 2014

Burning the forests that are supposed to be our best defense against climate change to protect us against climate change has to be one of…

This is How We Do It: Paper & Dogwood

Andrew Goldberg

Date Icon February 26, 2014

In 2014, a key part of our work to secure a legacy of forest protection is the implementation of our agreements with forest products giants…

Biomass Victory in Vermont – Are the EPA and the South Listening?

Scot Quaranda

Date Icon February 17, 2014

Vermont biomass power plant denied approval on basis of greenhouse gas emissions Earlier this week, the Vermont Public Service Board rejected an application to build…

Carbon Canopy is Changing the World

Andrew Goldberg

Date Icon February 7, 2014

We did it! In November at the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild Trade Show in Philadelphia, the Carbon Canopy announced transactions for carbon offsets from…

Save North Carolina’s Hofmann Forest

Scot Quaranda

Date Icon February 5, 2014

North Carolina State University (NCSU) is attempting to sell their Hofmann Forest, an extremely large tract of pine forests and pocosin wetlands located near Jacksonville,…

UK Government Investigates Wood Pellet Industry in US South

Danna Smith

Date Icon February 3, 2014

In less than a year, the Our Forests Aren’t Fuel campaign has shined a big spotlight on the forest destruction that has followed in the…

Conservation Groups Convene to Combat the Exploding Wood Pellet Export Industry in the South

Danna Smith

Date Icon February 3, 2014

As you probably already know, Dr. Anna Stephenson from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change paid North Carolina and Dogwood Alliance a visit…

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