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There's a Booming Business in America's Forests. Some Aren't Happy About It.


There’s a Booming Business in America’s Forests. Some Aren’t Happy About It.
The fuel pellet industry is thriving. Supporters see it as a climate-friendly source of rural jobs. For others, it’s a polluter and destroyer of nature.
A tree being dragged to a wood chipper, a first step toward being transformed into wood pellets and shipped overseas.Credit.
Photographs and Video by Erin Schaff
Gabriel Popkin and Erin Schaff traveled to Northampton County, N.C., to examine the climate controversy over a fast-growing industry.
April 19, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
GARYSBURG, N.C. — In 2013, Kathy Claiborne got a noisy new neighbor. That’s when a huge factory that dries and presses wood into roughly cigarette-filter-sized pellets roared to life near her tidy home in one of the state’s poorest counties. On a recent afternoon in her front yard, near the end of a cul-de-sac, the mill rumbled like an uncomfortably close jet engine. ....

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