Forest protection advocates joined Democrats State Sen. Erica Smith and Rep. Cynthia Ball today in calling for stronger controls on the wood pellet industry in order to preserve the state’s timber stands and potentially blunt local effects of climate change. The Enviva wood pellet plant in Garysburg uses the equivalent of 50 acres of forest per ...
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