Drax-owned wood pellet plant in US broke air pollution rules again

The plant in Gloster, Mississippi, converts trees into wooden pellets, which are burnt as biomass fuel in Drax’s huge power station, above, in north Yorkshire. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

A US plant that supplies wood pellets to the UK power generator Drax has violated air pollution limits in Mississippi, it has emerged.

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has written to Amite BioEnergy notifying the Drax-owned company that it had violated emissions rules.