An increasing demand for wood pellets from some European countries is accelerating the expansion of wood pellet industries in the US South. In the last year, the United States exported more than seven million tons of wood pellets, and 99% of those wood pellets came from the US South. As a result, the number of […]
On the evening of October 23rd, the European Union Parliament’s Environmental Committee met to vote on the Renewable Energy Directive. When it came time to determine the future of subsidies for the continued burning of whole trees for energy, members of European Parliament sided with the biomass industry and ignored the conservation community, science, and, […]
