EPA Calls Biofuels from Managed Forests “Carbon-Neutral”

From New Hampshire Public Radio: The Environmental Protection Agency says it will treat wood fuels from managed forests as carbon-neutral. It could give New Hampshire’s timber industry some long-term certainty.

Charlie Niebling has worked around the Granite State’s forest products industry for decades. He says scientists have never agreed on if biomass fuels, like wood chips, offset more carbon than they produce. 

Niebling thinks biomass can have a net carbon benefit if it’s harvested from a well-managed forest and burned efficiently.

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