Mississippi wood pellet plant violates state air pollution rules

In the UK, The Guardian reported that a plant that supplies wood pellets to UK power generator Drax has violated air pollution limits in Mississippi.

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has written to Amite BioEnergy notifying the Drax-owned company that it had violated emissions rules, according to the report.

The notice of violation said that while the plant was permitted to “operate as a minor source for hazardous air pollutants”, a review of Amite’s monitoring reports had shown the factory had been a major source of hazardous air pollutants from January 2021 until late last year.

The plant in Gloster, Mississippi, converts trees sourced from southern states into wooden pellets, which are burnt as biomass fuel in Drax’s power station in Selby, North Yorkshire.

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