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The Other Side of the Story: CNN Story on Enviva and “Helicopter Journalism”
Franklin Williams, Northampton County’s Economic Development Director Matthew posted this CNN piece, and my original thoughts were “I bet there are Black people who work at Enviva and who supply wood...
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DePartisanizing Issues: Biomass Utilization and Fuel Treatments
It’s been interesting to watch the mechanics of how an issue becomes partisanized.. or departisanized. Two cheery notes on this wherein what used to be considered that bad R people had are now the...
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‘Fuel for the next fire.’ Why California can’t unload the trees that worsen...
IMHO, this is a really really good story. Unfortunately, it’s for subscribers of the Sacramento Bee only. Fortunately, they have a 99 cent day rate (yay, wish everyone had that). There are also...
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4FRI By The Numbers- January 2022 Accomplishment Report
Why it 4FRI important? At our Region 2 Wildfire Strategy Roundtable, I heard “entrepreneurs need some guarantees for supply.” Which makes sense. But as we have seen, that and “having NEPA done” hasn’t...
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Yale Forest Forum (Western) Fuel Treatment Residues/Bioenergy Webinars of...
Here’s a link to all of Bioenergy series webinars organized by the Yale Forest Forum. They have links to the recordings and the slides. I took the slides above from the presentation by Matt Donegan,...
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How Surprising is That Really?: “To Fight Wildfire, California Gets a...
A new sawmill under construction near Lake Tahoe is offering hope to state officials and some environmental advocates. Its first job will be to process wood from trees killed in the massive Caldor Fire...
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Who Knew? Wood Is Still Main Heating Fuel For Some: A Roundup of...
Many of you have been following the great gas stove controversy (who actually decides which of the many health/environment/climate enhancing ideas to generate campaigns about?). Perhaps wood stoves...
View ArticleFrom Frivolous Litigation to Western Headquarters Via Many Other Ideas:...
Subtitle C actually says “addressing frivolous litigation” and Section 121 is titled “Commonsense Litigation Reform” Here’s the text. We’re going to need help from lawyers out there.. a) IN GENERAL.—A...
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A New Biochar Research Program? Part of Westerman Bill
The Westerman Draft bill wants to support biochar research. It seems that many folks are already studying biochar. An idea would be to round these up, and look for gaps and overlaps before we send any...
View ArticleWhat Do We Think About?: Forest Biomass Emissions Act of 2024
First, it seems to me that the southern experience with biomass shipping to Europe has sucked all the air out of the room for folks in the west who have a great deal of material and want to do...
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