Pennsylvania-based crypto mining company Stronghold Digital Mining is seeking to use shredded tires to generate up to 15% of its energy at its Panther Creek facility in Nesquehoning, Cointelegraph reported. Local environmental activists are preparing to oppose the move.
Stronghold submitted its application to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in July, according to local media reports. However, the information did not come into the public domain until last week. Officials said the company requested to use so-called tire-derived fuel (TDF), citing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) approval of the energy source for use at other industrial facilities in the state.
Although TDF has been legal in the United States since 1991 and is used in combination with other fuels at four plants in Pennsylvania, local environmental activists have highlighted the dubious status of facilities that already use TDF and insisted that crypto mining facilities should not be granted such permits.
