Tuesday, July 24, 2012

'Green' wood-fired power plants generate pollution violations

Wall Street Journal: Malodorous brown smoke from a power plant enveloped this logging town on April 29, 2010, and several hundred residents fled until it passed. Six months later, the plant got $5.4 million from a federal program to promote environmentally preferable alternatives to fossil fuel. The plant, Blue Lake Power LLC, burns biomass, which is organic material that can range from construction debris and wood chips to cornstalks and animal waste. It is among biomass plants nationwide that together have received...

URL: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303740704577524822063133842.html

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