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EPA Gives Break to Biomass Over Climate

January 13, 2011/

Under pressure from some members of Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is easing up on regulating global warming pollution from facilities that burn biomass for energy.

The agency said Wednesday it needs more time to figure out whether biomass — including farm waste, sawmill scraps and forest thinnings — is really a green fuel.

By Jeff Barnard, Associated Press

Full Story: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/epa_gives_break_to_biomass_over_climate/21397/

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