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USDA to Expand Taxpayer Handouts to Biomass Industry
USDA Announces Initiative to Expand U.S. Wood-to-Energy Efforts – by Sue Retka Schill, September 13, 2013. Source: Biomass Magazine The USDA announced a partnership agreement to expand wood energy use, which will help improve the safety and health of U.S. forests. The new partnerships include USDA, the Alliance for Green Heat, the Biomass Power Association, the Biomass…
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Biomass Developer Eyes Louisiana for Three New Biofuel Refineries
Biomass Developer Eyes Louisiana for Three New Biofuel Refineries August 27, 2013, Source: BioEnergy News Cool Planet Energy Systems, a producer of petrol from non-food biomass, is to build three biomass-to-biofuel production plants in the US state of Louisiana for an investment of $168 million (€125.9 million). Two sites – one in Alexandria and another in Natchitoches…
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Biomass Health Care Costs
Biomass Health Care Costs – by Dick Stokes, August 16, 2013. Source: Gainesville Sun Physicians warned Gainesville officials for years about the increased health risks and health-care costs from biomass-burning emissions. There’s nothing green, clean or healthy about hauling over 22 counties’ worth of wood on diesel-belching trucks every day to burn in our backyard. Dioxins, fine…
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