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Biomass Basics: Biomass & Pollution

Author: Dogwood Alliance

Date: 2022

Location: Array

Language: English

Type of resource: Fact Sheet

Topics: Health

Biomass, or bioenergy, creates energy by burning living materials like plants and trees. The wood pellet industry uses trees to make wood pellets. It then ships them to Europe and Asia and burns them in power plants to create electricity. Wood pellet plants are as dirty and problematic as coal plants.

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Organization: Dogwood Alliance