Policymakers are rethinking biomass as new research shows wood pellets may increase carbon emissions rather than reduce them.

There is a growing industry that's providing wood pellets for power. Pellet producers say it's renewable energy, but critics argue that this practice is actually clear-cutting trees — removing a ...

Trillions of small plastic pellets known as nurdles have been escaping from petrochemical plants into waterways and oceans for decades. Only lately has serious action been taken to figure out what can ...

GLOSTER, Miss. — This southern Mississippi town’s expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins’ home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers. She says industrial residues ...

Tiny plastic beads, commonly called nurdles, have polluted waterways across the country, including in the Charleston and Columbia areas of South Carolina, environmentalists say. File photo/The State ...

By Eric Onstad LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - British firm Binding Solutions has signed an agreement with a unit of Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co to turn iron ore in Western Australia's huge Pilbara ...

A new bill in the state senate would ban the discharge of pre-production plastic pellets, also known as "nurdles." This report explains what they are, how they end up in our rivers, and the danger ...