Environmentalists Raise Broad GHG, VOC Issues Over Biomass Pellet Plants

摘要

Environmental groups are broadly raising concerns about excess emissions of greenhouse gases and toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at biomass pellet plants, which are being built rapidly to provide fuel to European power plants that are counted as zero-carbon energy sources in that continent's GHG trading program. The groups say the domestic pellet manufacturing plants emit significant amounts of GHGs and VOCs that should make them major sources of pollution under the Clean Air Act requiring stringent emission controls, but most arc being permitted by states as minor sources.