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Report: Loophole in Climate Bill Could Level Forests

By Dave ThierJun 16th 2010 – 6:20AM
Rick Bowmer, AP

Rick Bowmer, AP

(June 16) -- The Senate climate bill, already controversial, contains a loophole that allows utility companies to discount all emissions from burning biomass fuels, according to a report released today by environmentalists. That flaw could effectively erase 80 percent of the bill's promised carbon dioxide reductions and...

Background on biomass

Biomass, as a renewable energy source, is biological material from living, or recently living organisms.

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