Research and Advocacy Links
Advocacy:
- NRDC: Our Forests Aren't Fuel
- Stop Spewing Carbon: Clean Energy Doesn't Come from a Smokestack
- Clean Air Task Force: The EPA Fiddles While Forests Burn
- The Partnership for Policy Integrity: Biomass, Air Pollution, and Carbon Emissions
- Forest Stewardship Council Forest Carbon Working Group: Recommendations and Strategic Framework
- Letter from 90 Scientists to Congressional Leaders urging that biomass global warming emissions be accounted for properly (May 17, 2010)
Research and Reports
- Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting Error
(Searchinger,et. al., Science Magazine, Oct 2009) (full article) - Biomass Electricity: Clean Energy Subsidies for a Dirty Industry (June 28, 2011)
- Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study
(June 2010 report by Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts)
Full Report [5MB] - Smoke and Mirrors
A Report on Biomass, Bio-energy and Global Warming by Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League - Forest, carbon and air quality impacts from wood energy facilities
By Dr. Mary Booth - Forest Bioenergy or Forest Carbon? Assessing Trade-Offs in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation with Wood-Based Fuels
Environmental Science and Technology 2011, 45, 789–79 - Goodbye to Carbon Neutral: Getting biomass footprints right, Environ Impact Asses Rev (2008)
