27 June 2013, Wbpionline news - The America Wood Council (AWC) has made the following statement regarding President Obama’s climate change strategy.

"While President Obama raised many climate issues in releasing his Climate Action Plan, one issue that deserves greater attention is for the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) to continue recognising the carbon neutrality of the biomass energy produced by wood products manufacturers.

"The agency is poised to issue a world-leading framework for measuring the carbon impacts of biomass energy. By investing in highly efficient biomass energy, wood products facilities have continually reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by displacing fossil fuels with woody residues that would have decayed anyway.

"Even some of the greatest critics of carbon neutrality have recognised that the use of biomass residues for energy should be treated as carbon neutral, and we hope that EPA will do the same in its upcoming accounting framework and GHG regulations."

http://www.wbpionline.com/news/awc-responds-to-president-obamas-climate-change-strategy-270613/