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Europe is burning our forests for renewable energy. Wait, what?
2014-08-25 22:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: If youre driving through the South and you see a denuded field filled with stubby new plantings where lush forest once stood, the blame might lie with an unlikely culprit: the European Union and its well-intentioned clean energy rules. In March 2007, the E.U. adopted climate and energy goals for 2010 to 2020. The 27 member countries set a goal of reducing carbon emissions 20 percent by 2020 and increasing renewables to 20 percent of their energy portfolio. Unfortunately, they underestimated the...
Indonesia cracks down on illegal burning, investigates more suspect companies
2014-08-14 20:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Every year, thousands of hectares of Indonesian forest are illegally burned by development companies. However, Indonesias Minister of Environment, Balthasar Kambuaya, is optimistic that legal charges over such fires can be completed even though he has just three months left in office. I hope [the environment ministry] can complete the tasks [to get the cases to trial]. Although, it also depends on the prosecutors [to try the cases]. We will coordinate with the prosecutors to push the cases...
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Wallula and Connell businesses fined for burning
2014-08-09 02:27:03| Food - Topix.net
It accused the fiber farm of burning stumps and agricultural waste that was not dry, which caused smoke on non-burn days.
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No campfire burning on Potlatch property in N. Idaho - Wed, 06 Aug 2014 PST
2014-08-06 21:22:13| Paper - Topix.net
No campfires or open burning will be allowed on Potlatch Corp.'s property in Idaho due to extreme fire danger in the region, a news release from the company said.
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Wildfires And 'Biomass Burning' Bigger Climate Change Threats Than Previously Thought
2014-08-01 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Nearly one-fifth of the carbon dioxide emissions caused by humans can be traced back to wildfires, slash-and-burn agriculture and the burning of wood waste to produce power, a Stanford University report found. While biomass burning has long been considered a culprit of climate change, the new research is the first to comprehensively quantify that threat -- and the number suggests the risks may be higher than previously thought. About 18 percent of all human-made carbon dioxide emissions -- or...
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