Federal Court Strikes Down EPA’s Biomass Pollution Loophole

On Friday, a key federal court ruling confirmed that Clean Air Act limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution apply to industrial facilities that burn biomass, including tree-burning power plants. The court vacated an exemption that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had carved out for “biogenic carbon dioxide.”The decision, by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC ...