Posted on 02/03/2014 4:33:29 PM PST by dynachrome
The impacts of EPA’s ruling will affect many families. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2011 survey statistics, 2.4 million American housing units (12 percent of all homes) burned wood as their primary heating fuel, compared with 7 percent that depended upon fuel oil.
Local governments in some states have gone even further than EPA, not only banning the sale of noncompliant stoves, but even their use as fireplaces. As a result, owners face fines for infractions. Puget Sound, Washington is one such location. Montréal, Canada proposes to eliminate all fireplaces within its city limits.
Only weeks after EPA enacted its new stove rules, attorneys general of seven states sued the agency to crack down on wood-burning water heaters as well. The lawsuit was filed by Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, all predominately Democrat states. Claiming that EPA’s new regulations didn’t go far enough to decrease particle pollution levels, the plaintiffs cited agency estimates that outdoor wood boilers will produce more than 20 percent of wood-burning emissions by 2017. A related suit was filed by the environmental group Earth Justice.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
No wood for you.. Maryland ping.
Wood is all I use to heat my house, and wood is what I will continue to use for heating. I’ve got enough wood cut and stacked to last me for the next twenty years, if need be.
Forbes and Larry Bell just seem to have screwed up and got their facts wrong, making themselves and all conservatives look bad.
At bottom, Forbes is MSM.
“Excuse me while I toss another log on the fire” ;’)
Interesting, but I have yet to see a green product worth buying.
Can you point to those? I searched and only found proposed rules.
There are states that ban wood burning including fireplaces. Do you know why?
This is about proposed regulations on new wood stoves. This doesn’t have anything to do with existing stoves.
Not yet.
I'm saddened that a FReeper, especially a '99er, is buckling under to the EPA sticking it's nose in people's business.
Shame on you.
I’ve got a couple years of wood stacked, but otherwise I’m the same as you, it’s my primary heat. Fortunately the EPA is not banning wood stoves contrary to the article, but proposing banning the manufacture of stoves without cleaning devices. That’s bad for ordinary people of course, but it is also in flux.
Time to pull out EPA bureaucrat burning stoves?
I went by Forbes, if they fact check poorly, I can’t help it.
On the contrary, they are not and I am not. I pointed out that the EPA is proposing these regulations for new stoves and there is a comment period currently underway. However it seems that Forbes would rather ignore those facts and stir up the rabble instead.
Which is more productive in your opinion, ranting "come and take it" on the internet against no actual or proposed regulation. Or commenting and criticizing the new rules?
Video from last Friday night's warming fire
Hey, EPA: Póg Mo Thóin
I'll be out again tonight with another warming fire!
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country." –Benjamin Franklin
ban wood burning including fireplaces
Either globull warming or pollution in winter time. Denver, colorado and other cities have such pollution bans.
It took me 10 minutes to look up and find the information about the proposed rules
Banning wood burning in WI wouldn’t go over well.
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And the states that are suing the EPA, per the article?
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