Renewable energy company Drax released a virtual tour of its LaSalle, Louisiana, pellet plant. The tour allows visitors to explore the plant’s operations, including the production of a wood pellet.

Trucks carrying trees and wood waste come and go and machinery hums day and night at the Enviva wood pellet plant in Northampton County in northeastern North Carolina. Like many wood pellet plants ...

While the Longview pellet plant is on hold for now, it could be resurrected. Drax could decide to resume work on the facility ...

Power from pellets Drax facilities boost timber industry in Louisiana and Mississippi, port in Baton Rouge The plants take in low-quality trees and shred the soft pine down to wood pellets. The ...

A biomass fuel plant that processes tree scraps into wood pellets has some North Carolinians concerned about its potential environmental and health impacts.Maryland-based Enviva will soon open its ...

An environmental group is taking aim at the wood pellet industry and in the process asking state officials to take steps to better regulate two manufacturing facilities in Bastrop and Urania that ...

In November, the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB) upheld the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency’s (ORCAA) air permit to Pacific Northwest Renewal Energy to establish a wood pellet ...

Supporters say the plant will bring much-needed jobs to George County, and help the timber industry. Critics say air pollution remains a key concern, and permit doesn't adequately address it. MDEQ ...

Enviva's Northampton County, N.C., wood pellet plant is in a low-income, majority African American area. Trucks carrying trees and wood waste come and go and machinery hums day and night at the Enviva ...