EPA’s Scott Pruitt says burning wood is renewable energy

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The Environmental Protection Agency will begin treating energy created by burning trees as renewable, the same as wind and solar.

Biomass from burning wood to produce electricity will be considered carbon-neutral, the EPA announced Monday.

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