Environmental Justice Groups Slam The Nature Conservancy for Promoting Government Subsidies for Industrial Logging, Biomass & Wood Production in 2023 Farm Bill
Guest Post By Spencer Moyle, Climate Impacts Stanback Fellow 2023. Have you ever wondered about Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)? Have you heard that it may hinder the transition to clean energy? BECCS aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But in reality, burning wood pellets releases more carbon than fossil fuels. Solar and […]
Dead trees, also known as deadwood or snags, may seem like a blight on the landscape. People may consider them eyesores or hazards to remove. But in reality, dead trees play a vital role in creating healthy and thriving ecosystems. Dead trees: provide habitat and food for wildlife cycle nutrients back into the soil help […]
The United States is a leading producer of wood pellets, exporting over 8 million tons in 2021. That’s up from just one million tons in 2011. Most of these exports still go to Europe, but there’s a growing demand for wood pellets in Asia. So what are wood pellets, and why are they becoming such […]
Across the US South, forests are being used to produce wood pellets. These pellets are burned for electricity generation in the European Union and beyond. This industry was almost nonexistent before 2010. So how much wood is now going to producing wood pellets? Let’s find out together. What’s the deal with biomass energy? Biomass energy […]
