RIDGELAND – The factory sits along a dusty unpaved road, on a stretch of land dominated by turf and trees, a few miles outside the center of this small town. Up close, the plant’s four silver silos ...

A south Georgia wood pellet mill was recently fined nearly $52,000 for a series of state environmental violations, including bypassing its air pollution controls. While the fine represents one of the ...

Activists and a group of South Georgia residents are calling for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt stricter oversight of wood pellet mills popping up across the region to feed global ...

Jackie Reynolds closes her eyes and massages her temples. The throbbing headache is back. It’s become all too regular. Two doors down, Shannon Smith rolls over in bed and tries to fall back asleep.

Tree trunks in Bavaria stored for further processing in a sawmill, taken during an excursion along the value chain of a wood pellet. (Photo by Angelika Warmuth/picture alliance via Getty Images) This ...

Residents of Gloster, Mississippi, are suing plant that exports wood pellets to UK and Europe. Company says it is reducing emissions ...

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Luis Algarin of Vermont Wood Energy Corp. says he's not going anywhere. But that assurance hasn't stopped some customers from demanding delivery of all their wood pellets they paid for in advance.

Mesa Verde Pellets will produce aspen and wood pellets for heating and animal bedding A new pellet mill has been built in Mancos. Mesa Verde Pellets, a subsidiary of Aspen Wood Products, will produce ...

The world’s largest wood pellet producer has applied for a major clean energy tax credit for building a new plant in Epes, Ala., but critics say burning wood pellets for energy won’t reduce the ...