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Carbon Loophole: Why Is Wood Burning Counted as Green Energy?
YaleEnvironment360 A loophole in carbon-accounting rules is spurring a boom in burning wood pellets in European power plants. The result has been a surge in logging, particularly in the U.S. South, and new doubts about whether Europe can meet its commitments under the Paris accord. Story here. PinP photo PinP photo.
While America Focuses on Tax Bill, Congress Quietly Tries to Open Arctic Refuge to Oil Drilling
EcoWatch The U.S. Senate has passed a Republican tax-reform package that contains a provision to authorize oil drilling on the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, placing the biological heart of one of our last pristine, untouched places in severe peril. Story here. Barrenground caribou, Nunavut. Ansgar Walk photo. RELATED: Proposed oil development threatens yet another caribou herd.