A reflection on her summer internship focused on the community and health impacts of woody biomass by Chongyang Du.
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A reflection on her summer internship focused on the community and health impacts of woody biomass by Chongyang Du.
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 Emissions from Biomass Puts Climate, Forests and Human Health at Risk
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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.
Yesterday the USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service issued its decision to approve the mass-release of over a quarter of a million GE eucalyptus trees across seven states in the U.S. South (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina), despite overwhelming public opposition.