Waxman blasts egregious biomass rider

Former California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman is criticizing language in the fiscal 2017 Interior Department and U.S. EPA spending bill he said would amount to a “loophole” that ignores carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of biomass for energy.

“It is absurd to think of burning wood as carbon neutral,” Waxman, now chairman of the advocacy firm Waxman Strategies, told reporters in a conference call today. Continue reading.