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Air Pollution from Bioenergy

Biomass Basics

What are the problems with big biomass? In a nutshell - there are three problems: 1) It takes huge areas of land and huge quantities of wood to supply a tiny fraction of the energy we use. 2) Burning biomass emits CO2 to the atmosphere, just as burning fossil fuels...

Plume Plotter: Who is Drax polluting right now?

Plume Plotter is showing minute-to-minute details of air pollution caused by Drax, taking account of local weather conditions.  See here for full details. And see here for a 2016 animation of Drax's plume. The Plume Plotter is built using one of the...

Congressional Briefing on Biomass Incinerators and Human Health

Congressional Briefing on Biomass Incinerators and Human Health Sponsored by Save America's Forests, with presentations by: + Rachel Smolker, Biofuelwatch: Air Pollution and Other Waste Emitted from Biomass Incinerators + William Sammons, M.D. • Biomass Incinerators...

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