Meet the Journalists: Justin Catanoso & Saul G. Elbein

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Justin Catanoso
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Saul G. Elbein
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Trees cut down on a Wilson County farm are brought to a loading area Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. The cut trees are headed to the Enviva plant in Northampton County, N.C. Image by Ethan Hyman. United States, 2019.

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A worker walks past logs stacked at the Enviva plant in Northampton County, N.C. on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. Enviva turns the logs into cylindrical pellets that will be burned for heat and electricity in Europe. Image by Ethan Hyman. United States, 2019.

In this Meet the Journalist video, Justin Catanoso discusses how policies intended to rid the world of carbon energy have inadvertently subsidized an uptick in logging in North Carolina. Get the details in Slow Burn, a partnership between the Pulitzer Center and the Raleigh News and Observer that examines the wood pellet industry and its impact on the environment and climate change.