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There’s a Booming Business in America’s Forests. Some Aren’t Happy About It. The fuel pellet industry is thriving. Supporters see it as a climate-friendly source of rural jobs. For others, it’s a polluter and destroyer of nature. A tree being dragged to a wood chipper, a first step toward being transformed into wood pellets and shipped overseas.Credit... Photographs and Video by Erin Schaff Gabriel Popkin and Erin Schaff traveled to Northampton County, N.C., to examine the climate controversy over a fast-growing industry. April 19, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET GARYSBURG, N.C. —...

Several Enviva mills were soon processing material from logging sites and sawmills throughout the region. Environmental groups say they have documented truckloads of logs and whole trees, not just leftovers, entering pellet mills. Publicly available images show logs stacked at mills, and a reporter outside a pellet mill entrance saw trucks of logs entering. Pellet makers’ pledges to rely on waste wood “painted them into a corner,” said Robert Abt, a forest economist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, because the wood-products industry already used its supplies relatively eff...