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I wish my neighbors would burn less wood. I am writing now because, although this is a perennial problem, at least one of my neighbors has been burning a lot of wood this season, and the air around my ...

The Drax company thinks so. It’s planning to convert trees into pellets in Longview. The exporter plans to burn the pellets overseas as a substitute for coal in existing power plants. I object. We ...

The article on wood pellet exports from rural Louisiana parishes is appreciated, but it omits the key fact of why those Europeans so favor wood pellets over oil, natural gas or coal for heating their ...

In 2013, the City Club of Portland released a report identifying wood smoke as one of the leading sources of air toxics in Portland. (Janet Eastman/Staff) Fire pits and smoke: It is heartening that ...

The discussion regarding wood-burning fireplaces has been a heated issue (excuse the pun) in Napa County. On July 9, 2008, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board adopted Regulation 6, Rule ...

I would like to draw your attention to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health a year ago that concluded pollution from wood burning fireplaces in New England during the winter is endangering ...

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Bloomington is perhaps the center of anti-climate change sentiment in Indiana. The city of Bloomington even has an ambitious "Climate Action Plan" to fight global warming and its serious consequences.

Ohio's coal-fired power plants make the state the third-worst emitter of carbon dioxide pollution in the nation, according to a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project. The group, created ...