On Jan. 16 the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Air Qualityheld a public hearing to discuss UNC's proposal to burn fuel pellets, which may contain Per- polyfluoroalkyl ...

An innovative European Union–funded Arbaflame project is aiming to produce 70,000 tonnes of biomass-based combustibles per year to enable clean power generation. The biomass pellets are made of wood ...

UNC-Chapel Hill is seeking an air permit that would allow it to experiment with supplanting coal with pellets made of paper and plastic scraps at its Cogeneration power plant on Cameron Avenue.

New technological advances may make it possible in the near future to engineer a coal-powered car so clean that it produces nearly no polluting emissions, including carbon dioxide, experts tell ...

A recent study concludes that burning biomass in place of coal, such as Portland General Electric is , can be cost-effective. The , published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, looked ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2015 - Even when factors such as harvesting and transportation are taken into account, the export of wood pellets from the U.S. to the European Union is substantially better than ...

Harvesting wood pellets in the US and exporting them to the EU was more environmentally friendly than burning coal in the EU to generate electricity. As the export of wood pellets from the U.S. to the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 16 (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale VALE3.SA produced iron ore pellets on an industrial scale for the first time without adding coal, company executives told Reuters on Wednesday ...

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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s Clean Energy Development Fund has a new program to help homeowners and businesses convert from old coal to new wood pellet heating. The fund now offers Vermont ...