A Pennsylvania company wants to burn old tires to power Bitcoin mining

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Shredded tires have been used to power cement kilns and paper and pulp factories for decades.

Motorists drive on the reopened section of I-95 about a week after it was closed due to damage from a tire fire in March 1996.If there’s a hierarchy of things you don’t want to burn, on purpose, most people would assume used rubber tires are close to the top.

The Pennsylvania Clean Air Council said Pennsylvania’s DEP has cited Panther Creek for unpermitted air pollution seven times since 2021. Russell Zerbo, an advocate with the Clean Air Council, said Panther Creek’s application cites federal emissions studies that are decades old. “We definitely don’t want to see piles of tires out there in the landscape,” said John Sheerin, director of the

 

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