But the idea that biomass is inherently carbon neutral incensed environmental groups. In a letter sent Tuesday to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), ...

The potential for classification of biomass as a carbon neutral fuel provides utilities with the opportunity to economically lowering their CO2 footprint and improving emissions compliance by re ...

But it quickly gets more complicated, which is why the carbon neutrality of biomass has been so hotly debated by some scientists. The EPA’s Science Advisory Board had not completed deliberations ...

Burning biomass is a costly process with a significant environment price — yet the EPA lauds it as "carbon neutral" By William Moomaw Published May 12, 2018 5:59AM (EDT) ...

Forest biomass is carbon neutral, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said today, announcing a decision that cheered private forest owners but inflamed environmentalists ...

Biomass plant operators have argued that biomass facilities are carbon neutral because trees absorb carbon dioxide when they grow. Carbon emissions from burning biomass are indeed offset by plant ...

There are so many problems with this — please read more here if you are interested — but fundamentally if biomass burning is not carbon neutral it can never be carbon negative.

Read Today's Paper Tuesday, February 20. 💪Rosie Gala tickets. 🏆 20 Under 40 nominations ...

Even the EPA’s document underscores that biomass is not carbon neutral scientifically, but it proposes to treat all biomass as carbon neutral,” said Yassa.

Contentions about whether woody biomass is carbon neutral have grown more heated over the last decade. As more policy frameworks across the world classify the combustion of wood for power and heat ...

Earlier this year, in an open letter to the EU, nearly 800 scientists railed against the biomass carbon neutrality loophole: “Even if forests are allowed to regrow, using wood deliberately for ...

Unlike prior efforts toward carbon neutrality, agro-sequestration seeks not net carbon neutrality, but net carbon negativity. According to the paper, for every metric ton (tonne) of dry biomass ...