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Coal mine on a barge in Indonesia.

Indonesian utility PLN ‘kneecaps renewables’ with embrace of fossil fuels

Jeff Hutton 17 Jun 2025
Oils extracted from macaúba palm fruits can be used in a wide range of industrial processes, including foods cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Brazil bets on macaúba palm to make renewable diesel and aviation biofuel

Sean Mowbray 21 May 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Banten Province, Indonesia.

Flawed energy road map may block Indonesia’s coal exit, critics warn

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 May 2025
Oil industry giants like Chevron, BP, Shell and TotalEnergies are planning to refit existing oil refineries or build new biofuel plants to produce renewable diesel.

As renewable diesel surges, sustainability claims are deeply questioned

Sean Mowbray 12 May 2025
Greater Greener Gloster community members stand in front of the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, as they demand the cleanup of the Drax pellet mill

Wood pellet maker Drax denied pollution permit after small town Mississippi outcry

Justin Catanoso 1 May 2025
Dutch forest advocates Maarten Visschers and Fenna Swart (right) protest the burning of forest biomass for energy outside Vattenfall's headquarters in Amsterdam in 2021.

Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elated

Justin Catanoso 27 Mar 2025
Suyono shows his biogas reactor surrounded by plants.

Chauffeur at Indonesia energy nonprofit drives uptake of biogas by Java farmers

Toto Sudiarjo 13 Mar 2025

Forest biomass growth to soar through 2030, impacting tropical forests

Justin Catanoso 6 Mar 2025
Forest near Rabia on the island of Waigeo in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

Indonesian forestry minister proposes 20m hectares of deforestation for crops

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2025
The Hadong power plant in South Korea co-fires coal with woody biomass, allowing it to claim it is reducing emissions under the UN loophole.

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Annelise Giseburt 20 Dec 2024

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024
Drax is the largest consumer of wood pellets for energy in the UK.

Action against forest biomass subsidies gains momentum at COP16

Justin Catanoso 29 Oct 2024
Tarsiers in the rainforests of northern Sulawesi.

Indonesia biomass zone for Japan and S. Korea energy razes rainforest in Sulawesi

Sarjan Lahay 28 Oct 2024
Greater Greener Gloster community members stand in front of the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, as they demand the cleanup of the Drax pellet mill

New survey puts human face on pollution caused by U.S. wood pellet mills

Justin Catanoso 24 Oct 2024

Revealed: Biomass firm poised to clear Bornean rainforest for dubious ‘green’ energy

Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson 21 Oct 2024
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Delay of EU Deforestation Regulation may ‘be excuse to gut law,’ activists fear

Justin Catanoso 17 Oct 2024

Sugarcane megaproject poses latest threat to Papua’s forests, communities

Hans Nicholas Jong, Sarjan Lahay 19 Jun 2024

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Justin Catanoso 6 May 2024
People holding wood pellets.

Study: Burning wood pellets for energy endangers local communities’ health

Justin Catanoso 18 Jan 2024

Indonesia pushes carbon-intensive ‘false solutions’ in its energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2023
Aerial view showing a massive ring of thousands of whole trees at Enviva’s Sampson County, North Carolina

Enviva, the world’s largest biomass energy company, is near collapse

Justin Catanoso 20 Nov 2023
Fossils fuels are emblematic of a “take-make-waste” economic model that is pushing humanity beyond safe limits, experts say.

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say

Sean Mowbray 16 Nov 2023
An airplane in flight.

Aviation’s climate conundrum: More than sustainable fuels needed

Sean Mowbray 19 Jul 2023
Logging operation in the Amazon.

Timber harvests to meet global wood demand will bring soaring emissions: Study

Justin Catanoso 10 Jul 2023

Seas of grass may be dark horse candidate to fuel the planet — or not

Carly Nairn 14 Jun 2023
The endangered pig-nosed turtle, also known as the Fly River turtle, lives in northern Australian and southern New Guinea, including in the area Medco is operating in. Image by Jin Kemoole/Flickr.

Report: Forest-razing biomass plant in Indonesia got millions in green funds

Philip Jacobson 2 Jun 2023
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Financial downturn at Enviva could mean trouble for biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 25 May 2023
Cleaning a beach in the Dominican Republic.

Sargassum surges in Mexico: From nuisance to new green industry?

Sandra Weiss 17 May 2023
Yuliana and Singapue, workers in an oil palm plantation

From palm oil waste to cellulosic ethanol: Indonesia’s opportunity (commentary)

Tenny Kristiana 12 May 2023
During their five-year project, To-Syn-Fuel converted more than 500 metric tons of dried sewage sludge into 50,000 liters (13,200 gallons) of oil.

Crud-to-crude: The global potential of biofuels made from human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2023
Lagae and biofuel.

As Exxon bows out, industry takes step toward sustainable algae biofuels

Carly Nairn 9 May 2023
Jatropha curcas trees in Hawai‘i.

Jatropha: The biofuel that bombed seeks a path to redemption

Sean Mowbray 6 Apr 2023

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