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Classifying biomass as carbon neutral increases greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions under the Clean Power Plan

Classifying biomass as carbon neutral increases greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions under the Clean Power Plan

Full Title:  Classifying biomass as carbon neutral increases greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions under the Clean Power Plan
Author(s):  Mary S. Booth
Publisher(s): Partnership for Policy Integration
Publication Date: October 1, 2016
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Description (excerpt):

The Senate energy bill (S. 2012) now pending in Congress includes a provision that requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ignore carbon pollution from burning forest biomass by classifying it as “carbon neutral.” This measure would render bioenergy effectively equivalent to zeroemissions wind and solar energy as a replacement for coal under the Clean Power Plan (CPP). Similar provisions are included in the pending House and Senate Interior Appropriations bills.

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