VAIL ” There’s a potential upside to all those trees in the West killed by beetles and drought. It’s called biomass, a catchall term used to describe a variety of ways wood and other biological waste ...

California, biomass energy advocates say, has struggled to get past its distrust of the technology, given traditional biomass’ checkered past of clear-cutting forests and polluting poorer communities.

Discussion on a planned 3-megawatt biomass plant project at the Nevada County Board of Supervisors meeting this week offered enough examples of the positive impact it could make in our community that ...

11:51 a.m. Sept. 30, 2025: A previous version of this story stated that the Center for Biological Diversity advocated for a wildfire approach involving only home hardening and evacuation planning. Its ...