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Allison Brouk, Attorney, Gulf Regional Office, Earthjustice: “They applied for a minor source permit, emitted at major source levels until they were fined and (state regulators) made them change that. It’s a pattern Drax has taken, somehow, just to work with the system.”

The plants that make industrial wood pellets harm people and the environment — with low-income, rural communities disproportionately affected.

The U.K. wood pellet manufacturer pollutes low-income U.S. communities

Poor, Black, and rural communities in the South are disproportionately affected.

Ashley Bennett, Attorney, Northwest Regional Office: “People are extremely concerned about this because they know what communities are going through in the Southeast with the wood pellet industry, and they just don’t want those problems.”

Ashley Bennett, Attorney, Northwest Office, Earthjustice: “Clean energy should not lead to increased logging and forest degradation, and it shouldn’t create greenhouse gas emissions. These facilities are just not good for the communities that they come into. They put public health at risk, put forests at risk, put the ecosystem at risk, and ultimately, they…

Residents are concerned Grays Harbor plant could cause environmental and human health harm before state hearings board rules on legality of its air permit

Five Northwest and national environmental groups ask the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board to stay an air permit for an industrial-scale wood pellet plant in Hoquiam, Washington, suspending construction and operation of the facility until the legal challenge is resolved.

Here are 10 reasons why industrial wood pellet production is a false solution to the climate crisis.

The permit vastly underestimates harmful air pollution from the plant that would cause health impacts to residents in nearby communities

This is an appeal of the Final Determination and Order of Approval for Notice of Construction Application 23NOC1606, issued by the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency on May 14, 2024, permitting Pacific Northwest Renewable Energy to construct and operate an industrial-scale, export-focused wood pellet manufacturing facility at 411 Moon Island Road in Hoquiam, Washington.