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How the American South is paying the price for Europe's 'green' energy

How the American South is paying the price for Europe's 'green' energy

Forests are crucial to combating climate change — will Biden rise to the challenge?

Covering a third of the planet's land surface, forests are massive carbon sinks, absorbing and storing carbon dioxide and keeping it out of the atmosphere where it would contribute to global warming. Only the world's oceans store more carbon. Keeping forests intact has long been considered essential...

Forests are crucial to combating climate change—will Biden rise to the challenge?

Unsustainable logging by the forest products industry is driving massive carbon emissions.

Europe's appetite for wood is clashing with Black communities in South Carolina

Europe's appetite for wood is clashing with Black communities in South Carolina Sammy Fretwell, The State (Columbia, S.C.) May 7—Europe's effort to make energy from American wood pellets is drawing complaints from Black community leaders in South Carolina, where manufacturers are expanding to produce more of the tiny wood chips. In Greenwood County, one large wood pellet factory is increasing the size of its operation and another mill is on the drawing board. A third pellet mill, backed by local and state politicians, plans to open next summer in Florence County. South Carolina has at least six wood pellet plants that have either been established or proposed in recent years, according to environmental groups and state regulators.

Europe's appetite for wood is clashing with Black communities in South Carolina

Europe's appetite for wood is clashing with Black communities in South Carolina Sammy Fretwell, The State (Columbia, S.C.) May 7—Europe's effort to make energy from American wood pellets is drawing complaints from Black community leaders in South Carolina, where manufacturers are expanding to produce more of the tiny wood chips. In Greenwood County, one large wood pellet factory is increasing the size of its operation and another mill is on the drawing board. A third pellet mill, backed by local and state politicians, plans to open next summer in Florence County. South Carolina has at least six wood pellet plants that have either been established or proposed in recent years, according to environmental groups and state regulators.

In the wake of the South's fatal winter storm, over 160 organizations endorse Southern Communities for a Green New Deal Platform

In the wake of the South's fatal winter storm, over 160 organizations endorse Southern Communities for a Green New Deal Platform Platform builds on the Green New Deal to center frontline communities in the South News provided by Share this article FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla ., March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of the fatal winter storm that left millions in the South without power and water, more than 160 organizations have endorsed the new "This is a Green New Deal designed specifically for the American South," said Alex Easdale, the executive director of the Southeast Climate & Energy Network. "We built consensus among frontline climate leaders, and used a bottom-up and community-based approach to developing our shared vision for how to achieve a safer, healthier, and more equitable future in the South."

Will new US EPA head continue his opposition to burning forests for energy?

Will new US EPA head continue his opposition to burning forests for energy? by Justin Catanoso on 4 February 2021 Under President Donald Trump the U.S. made moves toward legally enshrining the burning of forest biomass to make energy on an industrial scale as a national policy. That same policy has been embraced by the United Kingdom and European Union, helping them move toward a target of zero carbon emissions — at least on paper. However, the carbon neutrality label given to the burning of woody biomass to make energy, first proclaimed under the Kyoto Protocol, then grandfathered into the Paris Climate Agreement, has been found by science over the last decade to be more accurately characterized as a risky carbon accounting loophole.

Climate: Proforestation vs. more old-growth logging

by Contributor on Saturday January 23 2021 Photo from "100 Acre Wood" near Rossland, by Sara Golling Researchers say "proforestation" policies are the fastest and most effective way to draw excess CO2 out of the atmosphere. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, Mass.—Bob Leverett walked away from the trunk, looking up through the canopy, trying to get eyes on the crown. He crushed the thick pine needle duff with each step, while a light drizzle tapped on the leaves above him, and birds called from a distance. Then he saw it, the top of the tree, and measured its height with a small instrument he raised to his eye. He would combine this measurement with others to calculate the mass of the tree, a monolithic white pine in western Massachusetts. Once he found the mass, he could approximate how much carbon it contained, carbon the tree had been pulling out of the atmosphere, in the form of carbon dioxide, for well over 100 years.