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The Biomass Industry Pushes to Make Federal Climate Rules Friendlier to Wood-Burning Power Plants

August 23, 2016 /

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The industry that burns wood to produce electricity is floundering nationwide because of low power prices, and some lawmakers from heavily forested states are pushing to provide it with an extraordinary market advantage.

Six times during the past two years, federal lawmakers have included language in bills in attempts to force EPA regulations to ignore climate pollution from biomass power plants.

By John Upton

Full Story: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/biomass-power-slumps-as-epa-industry-spar-science-20499

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