MARCELL -- Tink Birchem believes she has a solution to high heating prices as well as all the pollutants they produce. She and other investors are putting millions of dollars into making what they ...

POTLATCH – A pile of seemingly neglected sawdust sitting outside a north central Idaho sawmill gave birth to Ben Anderberg’s latest big idea. Stored outside, the sawdust didn’t appear to have much ...

A new peer-reviewed study quantifies broadly for the first time the air pollution and public health impacts across the United States from both manufacturing wood pellets and burning them for energy.

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You probably don't want to think about it. But it's almost time to fire up the furnace. A regional not-for-profit is trying to get more people to... Oct 06, 2017 — You probably don't want to think ...

While the Longview pellet plant is on hold for now, it could be resurrected. Drax could decide to resume work on the facility ...

BRECKENRIDGE – Negotiations are under way for a wood pellet plant to begin operation later this year along Highway 9 at the north end of Breckenridge. The plant would take local beetle-killed ...

Trucks enter and leave Enviva's Northampton County, North Carolina, plant day and night. The U.S. wood pellet industry has grown almost 60% since 2016. Companies are cutting trees and making pellets, ...

Silos of Jasper Pellets can be seen along Nimmer Turf Road as seen on Sept. 24, 2020 in Ridgeland, S.C. Environmental groups claim Jasper Pellets has been converting wood chips into pellets without ...