Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 12—For a businessman with the right acumen, soggy wood pellets are simply sawdust waiting to happen. That is the view Josh ...

WILMINGTON PORT, N.C. — Sawdust from wood pellet manufacturing facilities in North Carolina have reportedly blown onto nearby residents’ homes and caused health problems. Since 2016, residents of ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - If you drive through Wilmington’s Sunset Park neighborhood, you may notice two large white inflatable domes built by wood pellet manufacturer Enviva Biomass. The domes have ...

BOB OAKES: Though winter seems a distant reality in August, many Massachusetts residents are already dreading the higher heating bills ahead. Right now, home heating oil costs about $4.30 a gallon — ...

Ernie Johnson figured $100-a-barrel oil was bound to happen someday. But the 58-year-old businessman in Missoula, Mont., never thought he'd see sawdust at $100 a ton. The price of sawdust has soared ...

Sawdust is the biggest expense for wood pellet manufacturers, who are seeing demand go up from consumers seeking alternatives to oil to burn in their furnaces. Corinth Wood Pellets LLC in Corinth now ...

Householders, shocked by heating costs, are flocking to an alternative source: wood-pellet stoves. But as stove demand surges, the condensed sawdust pellets that serve as fuel are getting hard to find ...