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  • Supreme Court Issues Decision on EPA’s GHG Tailoring Rule

    - by Erin Voegele, June 24, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its deci­sion on the U.S. EPA’s Tai­lor­ing Rule. While the court inval­i­dat­ed a por­tion of the rule, it essen­tial­ly held up EPA’s abil­i­ty to reg­u­late green­house gas (GHG) emis­sions for cer­tain facil­i­ties, specif­i­cal­ly those required to obtain a Pre­ven­tion…

  • EPA Begins to Address Biomass Emissions in Permits Following Court Decision

    - by Andrew Childers, March 28, 2014. Source: Envi­ron­ment Reporter The Envi­ron­men­tal Appeals Board par­tial­ly remand­ed an air pol­lu­tion per­mit for a waste-to-ener­gy facil­i­ty in Puer­to Rico after it failed to account for green­house gas emis­sions from biomass. The Ener­gy Answers Areci­bo LLC per­mit is one of the first to address emis­sions from bio­mass in the wake of…

  • Whole Trees 90% of Rothschild, WI Biomass Incinerator Fuel

    - by Kevin Mur­phy, Feb­ru­ary 26, 2014. Source: Wasau Dai­ly Herald wausaudai­ly­her­ald The recent­ly built pow­er plant at Dom­tar paper mill is get­ting only 10 per­cent of its fuel from log­ging waste, which orig­i­nal­ly was sup­posed to sup­ply near­ly all of the plant’s ener­gy needs. The 50-megawatt, $255 mil­lion pow­er plant went online in Novem­ber to pro­vide steam for Domtar’s paper…