Growing Wood Pellet Industry Raises Environmental Questions

North Carolina is home to 14.4 billion trees. Those trees provide habitat for animals and a healthy forestry business in the state. They also absorb carbon, helping fight the effects of climate change.

Demand for wood pellets and incentives to convert coal-fired power plants to biomass-burning plants may boost the state's forestry industry even further, but it’s a development that some say could have a damaging effect on the environment. Dave DeWitt from Here & Now contributor WUNC reports.