Living in cancer alley is pretty bad for those of us here in Louisiana, but one town in Mississippi is being left unable to breathe by a so-called green energy project put forth by European climate subsidies. The Huffington Post has reported that subsidies are funneling billions of dollars into … [continued]
The burning of any fuel will produce CO2, but also possibly pollution in the form of particulates, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, and carbon monoxide, although the extent of these depends on the nature of the particular fuel and the efficiency with which the fuel is burnt.
The burning of wood and biomass has gotten something of a bad reputation amongst some in the environmental community in recent years, despite the fact that well-managed woodland biomass production and use is probably as close to carbon-neutral as you can get when factoring in full-lifecycle costs and impacts (especially those from the mining sector).
