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This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wood pellets, by design, are highly flammable. The small pieces of compressed woody leftovers, like sawdust, are ...

MARCELL -- Tink Birchem believes she has a solution to high heating prices as well as all the pollutants they produce. She and other investors are putting millions of dollars into making what they ...

A new peer-reviewed study quantifies broadly for the first time the air pollution and public health impacts across the United States from both manufacturing wood pellets and burning them for energy.

In the search for a clean source of energy, a contender has emerged: little pellets of compressed wood. Harvested from forests in the American South, pine and hardwood trees are dried, compressed, and ...

Trucks enter and leave Enviva's Northampton County, North Carolina, plant day and night. The U.S. wood pellet industry has grown almost 60% since 2016. Companies are cutting trees and making pellets, ...