Madhu Khanna and Weiwei Wang, University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Madhu Khanna and Weiwei Wang, University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign

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A new study co-written by Madhu Khanna, right, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois, and Weiwei Wang, a postdoctoral research associate at Illinois, found that harvesting wood pellets in the US and exporting them to the EU was more environmentally friendly than burning coal in the EU to generate electricity.

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