The owner of a Middle Georgia wood pellet mill has apparently abandoned plans to pursue a significant expansion following a legal challenge by environmentalists. Then, this month, the same regulators ...

Industrial forest biomass wood pellet mills now dot rural areas around the globe, with plants concentrated in the U.S. Southeast, and other major facilities found in Canada, the EU, Russia, Vietnam, ...

The Jasper County wood pellet mill that neighbors say emitted toxins that made them sick — and broke federal and state environmental regulations requiring permits— agreed to pay the state $15,000 in ...

The company that runs Britain’s biggest power station has agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle air pollution claims against two of its wood pellet mills in northeast Louisiana. Each worth $1.6 million ...

Activists and a group of South Georgia residents are calling for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt stricter oversight of wood pellet mills popping up across the region to feed global ...