Mongabay

Drax pellet mill wins appeal to raise pollution limits in small Mississippi town

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Industrial forest biomass wood pellet mills now dot rural areas around the globe, with plants concentrated in the U.S. Southeast, and other major ...
The New York Times

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 ...
Post and Courier

Conservationists cast doubt on wood pellet industry’s ‘clean energy’ claims

RIDGELAND — It was the hums and whirs of machinery that first tipped off residents that something wasn’t quite right in their otherwise quiet, rural town. The noise spooked livestock. The near ...
Mongabay

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Golden State Natural Resources (GSNR), a California state-funded nonprofit focused on rural economic development, along with the U.K.’s Drax, a global maker of biomass for energy, have signed an ...