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The EPA says burning wood to generate power is 'carbon-neutral.' Is that true?

  • Written by William Moomaw, Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
Enviva's wood pellet plant in Ahoskie, NC. Marlboro Productions, CC BY-ND

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt recently told a group of forestry executives and students that from now on the U.S. government would consider burning wood to generate electricity, commonly known as forest or woody biomass, to be “carbon neutral...

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