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“N.C. Citizens Group, SELC Challenge Permit for Polluter Issued without Public Notice.” Southern Environmental Law Center, 29 Sept.

This 2021 expose from Politico explores the environmental effects of the growing biomass industry that disproprotionately negatively impact predominately low-income rural communities in the south.

A common tactic of suppressing community concerns about biomass operations and environmental quality is the issuing of permits for operations without public notice or with vague and misleading term

In 2017, residents of Dobbins Heights, North Carolina, challenged air quality permits for an Enviva plant that would add more pollution to their already "crowded" town.

This article on theEnergy Justice Network website briefly descrbies the current biomass movement in communities across the US, including Eastern NC.

This article discusses the complex economic issues that have arose in trying to subsidize biomass operations with government funds, which these operations rely on to function.

A CNN article from 2021 detailing the exploitation of rural Black communities in Estern North Carolina and other parts of the South by powerful Biomass manufacturers.

An article about local complaints of the DEQ's recent general biogas permit that allows more pollution and less use of clean systems in the waste of farms.