World’s largest wood pellet producer in jeopardy

A financial crisis has enveloped Enviva, the Maryland-based company that’s been harvesting large swaths of forest in the Southeast United States to make wood pellets for electricity production in the United Kingdom and Europe. Enviva calls itself the world’s largest producer of biomass wood pellets, and in recent years it’s faced a cross-Atlantic campaign attempting to debunk the company’s claims of environmental sustainability. It has 10 pellet manufacturing plants in six states: North Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia, where local residents and environmental groups have raised ecological and environmental justice ...