Pruitt's EPA will now classify burning wood as 'carbon neutral'

[Swordsmyth]

Under a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policy (http://usenvironmentalprotectionagency.cmail19.com/t/d-l-okkljik-alydlulij-r/) unveiled on Monday, burning forest products, known as biomass, will now be considered a "carbon neutral" fuel source.
The EPA's action, which EPA administrator Scott Pruitt announced before an audience of Georgia timber industry leaders, for now settles the question of whether chopping down trees, turning them into wood pellets, and then shipping them to power plants where they're burned for fuel will be counted as a renewable source of fuel like solar panels or wind turbines.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/pruitt-apos-epa-now-classify-174419215.html

[phill4paul]

Good. They can have my wood stove when they can pry it from my warm dead hand.

[brushfire]

Makes good sense to me.

Too bad most fireplaces around here are built for aesthetics.

People burn wood to watch the flames dance, while the fire draws the warm air right up the chimney.

Folks are paying to run the furnace while they pay to evacuate the heat.

[spudea]

Is it even better than carbon neutral? Even the hottest furnace will leave ash and charred remains, that's carbon that didn't go into the atmosphere. I guess it would be better just to grow trees, cut them down and bury them, or sink them in the ocean. But there's no money in that.