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Lawmakers are once again pushing U.S. EPA and other federal agencies to recognize the burning of biomass as a carbon-neutral energy source. But scientists say that could be a bad move for the climate.
But the idea that biomass is inherently carbon neutral incensed environmental groups. In a letter sent Tuesday to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), ...
Even as Congress declares that biomass is carbon neutral, burning it puts thousands of lives at risk. In the $1.5 trillion spending bill recently passed by Congress, lawmakers codified a ...
While the release of carbon from burning woody biomass is assumed to be offset by carbon uptake during trees’ growth, the EIA said, “This is not to say that biomass energy is carbon‐neutral.
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 ...
A long-standing UN policy, recognizing biomass burning as carbon neutral, has caused the U.S. forestry industry to gear up to produce wood pellets for power plants in Britain, the EU, South Korea ...
Biomass Pellets Offer a Carbon-Neutral Alternative to Coal. By Contributed Content. Thursday, October 21st, 2021. SHARE: An innovative European Union–funded Arbaflame project is aiming to ...
An industry built on a fallacy of carbon neutrality The “renewable” industry creates major emissions, destroys forests, and causes health and safety issues in low-resource communities.
The United States has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050, just 27 years from now. It's a move that 69% of Americans support and one that would mitigate climate change , clean the air and ...
Biomass ‘carbon neutrality’ debate continues to divide opinion. Using biomass, specifically energy derived from burning wood, as a crux in the UK's effort to transition towards a low-carbon economy ...
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 ...
Wikimedia Commons. Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would begin to count the burning of "forest biomass"—a.k.a. wood—as carbon neutral. The change will classify ...