Almost Half of US Senate Urges Agencies to Support for Forest Bioenergy

In Washington, nearly half of the United States Senate has written to the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Energy as well as the Environment Protection Agency Administrator, strongly urging the agencies to streamline support of biomass for energy.

The Senate also pushed them to provide working policies to ensure more use of sustainable biomass energy rather than a complicated policy framework that can contradict itself and create investment uncertainty, as is the case now. The letter especially pushes for recognition of carbon neutrality of forest biomass and forestry residues.