Operating through permitting authority asserted under auspices of its Clean Air Act, the agency will now have a major say in the design of every major project in which fossil fuel is combusted or CO2 emissions are released.
The pile is owned by Weston Super Mare based Good 2 Grow, but the company laid all its staff off and effectively shut down just days before the thousand tonnes of wood chippings and other green waste spontaneously combusted.
The current challenge is not only the visible soot from wood and coal fires, or smog from poorly combusted gasoline and diesel, which affects human health in direct and obvious ways, but also invisible greenhouse gases, which do not directly affect human health but will impact our environment significantly.