This letter, written in 2021, was organized by the Southern Environmental Law Center and signed by 95 other organizations. The letter, while commendin president Biden on new expansive environmental reform, criticizes the new reliance and confidence in bioenergy as the renewable resource of the future. The organizations cite scientific rsearch and reports to argue that biomass and biogas are not the solution to pollution, and in fact release more carbon into the atmosphere than coal.
Southern Environmental Law Center, "NGO Biomass Letter to President Biden", contributed by Josie Patch, Environmental Injustice in Eastern North Carolina, USA, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 14 December 2022, accessed 1 December 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/ngo-biomass-letter-president-biden
Critical Commentary
This letter, written in 2021, was organized by the Southern Environmental Law Center and signed by 95 other organizations. The letter, while commendin president Biden on new expansive environmental reform, criticizes the new reliance and confidence in bioenergy as the renewable resource of the future. The organizations cite scientific rsearch and reports to argue that biomass and biogas are not the solution to pollution, and in fact release more carbon into the atmosphere than coal.