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This is part 1 of a 2 part series. The second story will be published May, 18, 2022. The European Union and the United Kingdom are ramping up controversial wood burning to generate energy and heat as they follow legal mandates to phase out coal. But this practice is leaving smokestack carbon emissions uncounted and the atmosphere in arguably worse shape. Now, on the other side of the world, two industrial Asian giants are following Europe’s lead, though with less media scrutiny to date. Japan and South Korea, the world’s third- and 10-largest economies, have been increasingly relying on burnin…