Biomass as an energy source increases global warming and destroys ecosystems…all for profit.

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Who To Follow

These groups are the leaders on the issue. Their websites are filled with materials for as deep a dive as you can handle.

• PFPI

• Dogwood Alliance

• SELC

• Sasha Stashwick

• Biofuelwatch

Highlighted Reports

These longer form reports go deep into the issues.

• Rachel Carson Council, Clear Cut

• EIP “Dirty Deception” How the Wood Biomass Industry Skirts the Clean Air Act

key initiatives

Filings with the SEC and the EU lawsuit challenges the underlying premise of burning wood for energy.

• SEC Petition

• EU Biomass website

• EU Biomass legal case

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• United States District Court, District of Maryland, April 3, 2023 - Federal Securities Class Action Complaint

• Blue Orca Capital, October 12, 2022 - Blue Orca is Short Enviva Inc. (NYSE: EVA)

• PFPI, July 9, 2019 – EPA rears up, acknowledges co-firing biomass with coal increases GHG emissions

• PFPI, October, 2018 – The Bioenergy Boom from the Federal Stimulus: Outcomes and Lessons

• PFPI, September 3, 2018 – New UK Biomass Policy Removes Subsidies For High-Carbon Wood Pellets

• PFPI, December 3, 2017 – How UK Bioenergy Hurts Forests and the Climate

• PFPI, April 18, 2017 – Maine Bioenergy at the Crossroads, Costs of a failing Industry

• PFPI, April 2, 2014 – Trees, Trash, and Toxics: How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal

• SELC, Biomass Energy in the South - Forests Should not be Burned for Power Production

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• The American Conservative, January 12, 2022 - Burning the Forest for the Trees

• Huffington Post, December 20, 2021 - A ‘Green’ Energy Project Leaves a Mississippi Town Gasping for Air

• New York Review of Books, October 14, 2019 – The Great Biomass Boondoggle

• WSJ, August 7, 2019 – Wood Pellets Draw fire as alternative to Coal

• DeSmog, July 4, 2019 – Creative Carbon Accounting: How Industry and Government Make Burning Wood Look Like a Climate Solution 

• Mongabay, June 19, 2019 – Carbon to burn: UK net-zero emissions pledge undermined by biomass energy

• YaleEnvironment360, June 18, 2019 – U.S. Forests Are Being Clear-Cut to Supply Biomass Energy Industry, Report Finds

• Dogwood Alliance, June 18, 2019 – Enviva Caught in the Act

• Dogwood Alliance, June 18, 2019 – New Investigation Shows Continued Forest Destruction for Wood Pellets

• Courthouse News Service, June 5, 2019 – EU Plan to Burn Wood Instead of Coal Threatens Forests

• Climate Home News, April 3, 2019– Burning wood for power breaches EU treaty, new lawsuit claims

• WSJ, March 7, 2019 - Biomass Mess Shows Trouble with Sustainable Investing

• Vox, March 4, 2019 – Europe’s renewable energy policy is built on burning American trees

• Euractiv, March 4, 2019 – EU dragged to court for backing forest biomass as ‘renewable energy’

• Fool, May 10, 2018 – A Fire at One of Enviva's Assets Exposes Deeper Issues With Its Business

• YaleEnvironment360, December 19, 2017 – Carbon Loophole: Why Is Wood Burning Counted as Green Energy?