biomass boilers

• Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District and Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District

EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District (MDAQMD) and Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District (YSAQMD) portions of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern oxides of nitrogen (NO<INF>X</INF>) emissions from glass melting furnaces and biomass boilers. We are approving local rules that regulate these emission sources under the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act). We are taking comments on this proposal and plan to follow with a final action.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 11990, February 28, 2012
• Proposed rules
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Convservationists Sue Epa Over Emissions Exemptions

BANGOR A national coalition of conservation groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday over carbon dioxide emissions from large-scale wood-burning power plants that pulp and paper industry officials say are crucial to their businesses. The conservation groups, which include the Natural Resources Council of Maine and the national Center for Biological Diversity, are attacking an EPA decision to temporarily exempt large-scale wood- fired boilers and other biomass incinerators from carbon dioxide emission limits spelled out in the Clean Air Act. The EPA created the three-year exemption so it could develop better regulations, but the conservation groups argue that the delay will lead to a rush of new carbon-spewing biomass boilers.

• Bangor Daily News
• August 16, 2011

• Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Placer County Air Pollution Control District

EPA is finalizing a limited approval and limited disapproval of revisions to the Placer County Air Pollution Control District (PCAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). This action was proposed in the Federal Register on September 6, 2011 and concerns oxides of nitrogen (NO<INF>X</INF>) emissions from biomass fuel-fired boilers. Under authority of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act), this action simultaneously approves a local rule that regulates these emission sources and directs California to correct rule deficiencies.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 2643, January 19, 2012
• Rules and Regulations
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Biomass Boilers in Minnesota.

HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that a U.S. subsidiary in its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract b...

• Business Wire
• October 06, 2005

• Extolling the Benefits of Heating with Pellets ; the Switch From Oil Makes Sense On Many Levels, but It Won't Occur Without Government Help.

What's the quickest way to burn 25 percent less heating oil in the Northeast? Wind energy won't do it. Conservation and efficiency will make a big difference, but how about switching 1.4 million homes in seven states from oil heat to clean-burning, biomass boilers that are popular in Europe?

• Portland Press Herald
• July 01, 2010

• Markets for Biomass, Wood Pellets Vary

DEAR SUN SPOTS: My property has a lot of poplar and pin cherry trees that I'd like to have removed. Would they be valuable to loggers feeding biomass boilers or those who make wood pellets? Thank you for all you do. -- Looking for Sunlight, Greene ANSWER: Sun Spots started the research for your question with a call to the arborist who does the work on her 15 acres. Dale said that while there is a market for biomass wood, such as what you have, that the price is such that it is unlikely to cover the cost of cutting and removing the wood.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• August 13, 2011

• Alternative energy for Southeast Alaska: biomass fuels: wood-burning boilers save money for homes, schools and community buildings.

Craig, located on Prince of Wales Island, may soon become known as the community where biomass fuels all started in Alaska. The change to using wood w...

• Alaska Business Monthly
• Vol. 22 Nbr. 10, October 2006

• Obama Greens Turn Yellow ; Epa Blinks in the Face of Gop Challenge

Environmentalists are backpedaling in their long march toward deindustrialization. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has offered to delay some of its plans to regulate so-called greenhouse gases. Republicans in Congress shouldn't hesitate to press their advantage. The agency's advance faltered last week with the announcement that it was willing to put off for three years new rules requiring biomass-fired boilers to obtain permits to emit carbon dioxide. This provides temporary financial relief to power plants that burn forest and agricultural products, wastewater treatment facilities, landfills and highly subsidized ethanol operations. Other restrictions announced Jan. 2 on coal-fired plants and oil refineries remain in place.

• The Washington Times
• March 24, 2011

• Collins Signals Biomass Rules Likely to Change

PORTLAND - Proposed federal rules regarding biomass boilers likely will be changed, removing financial threat to the state's paper mills, hospitals and schools, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins told Maine papermakers Thursday. Collins spoke at the Maine Pulp and Paper Association's annual meeting, spending much of her time on the Environmental Protection Agency rules. She also talked about her hopes to make permanent pilot rules that allow heavier trucks on the interstate system in Maine.

• Bangor Daily News
• October 29, 2010

• Usw Pleased with Epa Progress On Waste Definition in Boiler Rules

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Responding to United Steelworker (USW) concerns, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to rewrite rules to allow alternative biomass fuels to be used as fuel in industrial, commercial and institutional boilers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO)

• U.S. Newswire
• October 14, 2011