Sentences with phrase «wood pellets exported»

That hasn't stopped Europe from claiming to cut its carbon footprint, at least on paper, by cutting and burning trees — and increasingly doing so with wood pellets exported from the Southeastern United States.

As a result, wood pellet exports from the United States nearly doubled in 2013, the Energy Information Administration reports.

Not exact matches

Its facilities in North Carolina and Mississippi currently produce and export to Europe more than half a million tons of wood pellets every year.

A 2015 analysis prepared for the American Forest and Paper Association, a trade association, concluded that most wood pellets produced in the U.S., both for domestic burning and for export to the U.K., were prepared from whole trees.