VAIL ” There’s a potential upside to all those trees in the West killed by beetles and drought. It’s called biomass, a catchall term used to describe a variety of ways wood and other biological waste ...

Arbor Energy is, essentially, a poster child of the kind of biomass energy project California keeps saying it wants. The state's goal is to reduce wildfire risk on 1 million acres of wildlands every ...

11:51 a.m. Sept. 30, 2025: A previous version of this story stated that the Center for Biological Diversity advocated for a wildfire approach involving only home hardening and evacuation planning. Its ...