Industry Asks EPA To Reject Petition On Biomass GHG Data In Inventory

摘要

The forestry industry is urging EPA to reject an environmental group's data quality petition that asks the agency to revise its greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory from 1990-2008 to account for emissions from the burning of biomass, which the current inventory does not.rnThe National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) filed a Sept. 23 response to environmentalists' petition charging that the environmentalists' arguments are "entirely without merit" and that the agency's methodology for tallying biomass GHG emissions in the inventory, which focuses solely on emissions from land-use changes, is sound because to include both land-use changes and biomass burning would result in "double counting" against the sector.rnThe group also reiterates its arguments that EPA should exempt biomass from first-time Clean Air