Southern Forests Conservation Coalition

Southern Forests Conservation Coalition We work for the responsible conservation of U.S. southern forests. We oppose the wood pellet industry and other unsustainable logging practices.

Southern Forests Conservation Coalition
P.O. Box 124
Hampstead, NC 28443 The Wood Pellet Forum is a public event focusing on the effects of the wood pellet industry on the forests and environment of North Carolina. The forum will address the science behind the industry, including the social/health and international impacts, and legal issues with the industry. The morning session features Dr. Willi

am Moomaw, Tufts U; Dr. Alan Weakley, UNCCH; Dr. Robert Abt, NCSU; and Alvin Braswell, NC Museum of Natural History. The afternoon presentations will be made by Derb Carter and David Carr of the Southern Environmental Law Center; Peter Deane from UK Biofuelwatch; Danna Smith, Dogwood Alliance; Robert Parr, MD, Clean Air Carolina; and Debra David, Concerned Citizens of Richmond County. At the conclusion of each session, the audience will have the opportunity to engage in a panel discussion covering all topics presented by the speakers.

Sharing a 4-minute commentary about climate change by our associate, Andy Wood. He delivered it last week on our Wilmi...
02/10/2026

Sharing a 4-minute commentary about climate change by our associate, Andy Wood. He delivered it last week on our Wilmington-based public radio station, WHQR.

WHQR featured a wide variety of community member commentators from the early days through 2018. In celebration of WHQR’s 40th Anniversary in 2024, the station is rebroadcasting special commentaries bi-weekly. Listen for these during Morning Edition and All Things Considered on Tuesdays and listen ...

Everyone in our Southern Forests Conservation Coalition should thank Natalie Bennett for her tireless work for global fo...
06/27/2025

Everyone in our Southern Forests Conservation Coalition should thank Natalie Bennett for her tireless work for global forests.

Here is a comprehensive article about how the citizens of Mississippi persuaded the Mississippi Department of Environme...
05/03/2025

Here is a comprehensive article about how the citizens of Mississippi persuaded the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to deny Drax's request to be allowed to increase its pollution at its Gloster, Mississippi plant. The article is by Justin Catanoso, Professor of Journalism at Wake forest University.

Jimmy Brown has lived less than a mile from the Drax wood pellet manufacturing plant in the tiny town of Gloster in Amite County, Mississippi, since it opened in 2016. The impact on his quality of life, and often his health, was the same then as it is now. “It’s terrible,” Brown told Mongabay....

This is very important information from an organization that shares the objectives of our SFCC. Let's give them our sup...
03/04/2025

This is very important information from an organization that shares the objectives of our SFCC. Let's give them our support.

This article gives first-hand reports related to the Enviva plants in Faison, Sampson County and Ahoskie, Hertford Count...
02/06/2025

This article gives first-hand reports related to the Enviva plants in Faison, Sampson County and Ahoskie, Hertford County North Carolina.

Some neighbors of wood pellet mills in the Southeast say they simply avoid outdoor activities such as grilling and gardening to avoid the dust, a…

Here is a major Mongabay report filed by Justin Catanoso who is attending COP 16 in Cali, Columbia. Justin is a profes...
11/04/2024

Here is a major Mongabay report filed by Justin Catanoso who is attending COP 16 in Cali, Columbia. Justin is a professor of journalism at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has extensive first hand observations of the clear-cut logging of natural, mixed species forests in the US southeast to feed the wood pellet mills owned by Enviva and Drax.

CALI, Colombia – For years, at annual United Nations climate summits, forest advocates eager to draw critical attention to the scientifically dubious benefits of burning forest biomass to make energy were ignored, and their recommendations never added to official UN agendas for discussion or a vot...

Yesterday's protest outside the UK Houses of Parliament to mark International Day of Action Against Big Biomass and the ...
10/22/2024

Yesterday's protest outside the UK Houses of Parliament to mark International Day of Action Against Big Biomass and the first day of COP 16 of the Convention on Biodiversity was covered in alternative news outlet The Canary. We also held a simultaneous protest by the Drax supply train at Liverpool

Campaigners staged a ‘Save Nature, Stop Burning Trees’ demo beside Big Ben to call for an end to subsidies for biomass rogues like Drax

This is a hugely important policy change by the Conservative Party. While they are now the minority party, they can hav...
10/18/2024

This is a hugely important policy change by the Conservative Party. While they are now the minority party, they can have a big influence on the ultimate position of the majority Labour Party. This can be a big thing for everywhere that Enviva and Drax are clear-cut logging in the US and in British Columbia and everywhere there are wood pellet plants operated by both companies impacting the health and quality of life for those impacted communities.

Claire Coutinho, the shadow net zero secretary, said that on closer examination the case for the scheme “simply ­unravelled”

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