Wood pellets boomed in the US South. Climate activists want Biden to stop boosting industry growth

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Pollution from biomass-based facilities is nearly three times higher than that of other energy sectors, according to a 2023 paper in the journal Renewable Energy.
58% : "Bioenergy is a part of that.
49% : "Wood pellet production skyrocketed across the U.S. South to feed the European Union's push this past decade for renewable energy to replace fossil fuels such as coal.
43% : Spokesperson Michelli Martin said Drax in 2021 installed pollution controls, including incinerators to decrease carbon emissions.
37% : As producers expand west, environmentalists want the government to stop incentivizing what they call a misguided attempt to curb carbon emissions that pollute communities of color while presently warming the atmosphere.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.