A group of environmental groups filed a lawsuit to prevent EPA from giving a free pass to biomass utilities to pollute at will…
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Our Forests. Our Strength.
A good summer internship can be a life changing experience
A reflection on her summer internship focused on the community and health impacts of woody biomass by Chongyang Du.
Standing in the Deep Woods After a Long Satisfactory Rain
A piece by acclaimed writer and Dogwood Alliance board member Gary Phillips contemplating the energy in nature and the need to leave it there not extract it…
EPA’s Decision Not to Regulate Carbon from Biomass is a Mistake
EPA’s Decision Not to Regulate Carbon Emissions from Biomass Puts Climate, Forests and Human Health at Risk
Further Expansion of Industrial Scale Wood Burning Facilities Needs to Be Stopped While EPA Studies the Environmental Impacts
Lawsuit Filed to Stop Release of GE Eucalyptus in the South
An alliance of conservation organizations today sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its approval of open-air field tests of a genetically engineered (GE) hybrid of eucalyptus tree across the southern United States. The permit, issued to a company called ArborGen, which is a joint initiative of International Paper, MeadWestvaco and Rubicon, was approved May 12 with minimal environmental review. It authorizes the experimental planting and flowering of a new, genetically engineered hybrid on 28 secret sites across seven southern states — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.