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Export of wood pellets US to EU more environmentally friendly than coal
2015-11-21 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: As the export of wood pellets from the U.S. to the European Union has increased six-fold since 2008, questions have been raised about the environmental impact of the practice. According to a new paper from a University of Illinois expert in environmental economics, even after accounting for factors ranging from harvesting to transportation across the Atlantic Ocean, wood pellets still trump coal by a wide margin in carbon emissions savings. The greenhouse gas intensity of wood pellet-based electricity...
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