European Commission Report Likely To Push EU To Close Wood Pellet Energy Loopholes

As we’ve reported previously, deforestation of the Southeastern US has been amplified in recent years as a result of growing demand in the European Union for wood pellets that can be burned in place of coal — mostly owing to loopholes in the EU’s climate policies that put wood-burning thermal power plants on equal footing [&hellip

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