This Earth Day, Dogwood Alliance sends gratitude to the people who are addressing these issues in their communities every day.
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This Earth Day, Dogwood Alliance sends gratitude to the people who are addressing these issues in their communities every day.
Dogwood Alliance wants to set the record straight about what Southerners affected by the biomass industry actually think about the increased capacity for sending our forests away to be burned.
Don’t let companies like Enviva fool you; the “green” fuel that they’re marketing is driving climate change.
This is not your grandparents’ wood stove we’re talking about; this is operating an enormous power plant using enough wood to power an entire country.
As the days get hotter, the number of Southerners standing up to protect and fight for forests increases steadily: it’s almost as if unrest is in direct proportion to the degrees on a thermometer. Summertime in the South conjures up images of being sleepy and slow-moving; and yet, the opposition to burning forests for fuel is livelier than ever.