BRUSSELS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A vote last week by the European Parliament marks a first step toward significant new restrictions on burning “primary woody biomass” (wood sourced directly from forests) ...

In the past few decades, the European Union has transformed its energy system. In 2005 about 10 percent of all energy consumed in the EU came from renewable sources. Last year that share hit 22 ...

Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would begin to count the burning of "forest biomass"—a.k.a. wood—as carbon neutral. The change will classify burning of wood pellets a ...

Diana Kruzman is a Midwest Fellow at Grist, and her freelance work has appeared in Undark, Earther, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Vice, and Religion News Service. Her reporting ...

A worker scoops tree branches into a 1,000-horsepower tub grinder at Environmental Wood Supply in St. Paul on Tuesday. The tree branches come from all over the Twin Cities metro area and are ...

They produce more harmful particulate matter than diesel trucks and cigarette smoke. They release carbon dioxide and toxic chemicals that can lead to dire health and climate outcomes. Yet efforts to ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

When many people think of wood-burning stoves, the chances are that they imagine bulky cast-iron boxes, smoky chimneys and soot-blackened glass. The models that were a mainstay of old cottages and ...

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