State: In the forests of Allendale County is a wood-burning power plant with the capacity to release tons of pollution that many other industrial plants must control.
Under construction for most of the past two years, the Allendale plant is one of an estimated 20 wood-burning plants nationally that took advantage of a 2011 federal decision exempting biomass factories from new greenhouse gas regulations.
But a federal court recently threw out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's exemption, a...