Posted on 03/09/2015 6:47:48 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Smoke wafting from wood fires has long provided a familiar winter smell in many parts of the country -- and, in some cases, a foggy haze that has filled people's lungs with fine particles that can cause coughing and wheezing. Citing health concerns, the Environmental Protection Agency now is pressing ahead with regulations to significantly limit the pollution from newly manufactured residential wood heaters. But some of the states with the most wood smoke -- including Minnesota and Wisconsin -- are refusing to go along, claiming that the EPA's new rules could leave low-income residents in the cold.
Missouri and Michigan already have barred their environmental agencies from enforcing the EPA standards. Similar measures recently passed Virginia's legislature and are pending in at least three other states, even though residents in some places say the rules don't do enough to clear the air. It's been a harsh winter for many people, particularly those in regions repeatedly battered by snow. And the EPA's new rules are stoking fears that some residents won't be able to afford new stoves when their older models give out.
"People have been burning wood since the beginning of recorded time," said Phillip Todd, 59, who uses a wood-fired furnace to heat his home in Holts Summit. "They're trying to regulate it out of existence, I believe, and they really have no concern about the economic consequences or the hardship it's going to cause.
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“We’re going to jack up energy costs to the point you can’t afford them and then we’ll prevent you from heating with wood. Freeze in the dark, peasant scum!”
They should just burn coal. I’m sure that is much better.
In NH, revolt is expressed by people ignoring the “regulations” and the police looking the other way.
It us time to tell the EPA that their actions have consequences.
Bad ones.
And back those statements up.
Enough is enough.
We used to burn coal....first they came for the coal, then the wood....
Don’t even TRY to get between me’n my cherry wood scent
Time for Walker to issue an “executive order” excluding Wisconsin from the EPA’s ridiculous mandates?
Remember the days when America was a free country and the government wasn’t out of control?
>> EPA Rules...
I thought we were a republic.
Freeze in the dark, peasant scum!
They don't want you to freeze in the dark. They want you to vote for politicians who're promising you energy subsidies.
I hauled many a coal bucket in my day.
Freeze in the dark, peasant scum!
They don't want you to freeze in the dark. They want you to vote for politicians who're promising you energy subsidies.
“energy costs will necessarily skyrocket” said King Barry.
After the IRS, the EPA is at the top of the list of bloated useless bureaucratic agencies that should be shut down.
Yep....local law enforcement exercising their prosecutorial discretion....Obama surely couldn’t have a problem with that.
The EPA isn’t out to protect the environment so much as it is out to destroy capitalism and independence.
More people will die of pneumonia than would die of sniffing wood smoke particles, but that is okay with the EPA. Had enough?
I can understand why there are some claims to limit wood burning in desert climates, where the pollution of the smoke can be bad, but even this is nutty. I mean, don’t they actually have plenty of trees and more moisture over in Minnesota and Wisconsin than they do in say Nevada or Arizona?
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