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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*** ... in some cases, a foggy haze that has filled people’s lungs with fine particles that can cause coughing and wheezing.****
And in OUR AREA, it comes form controlled burns by the National Forest Service down in the Ozark National Forest about sixty miles from here but blankets all of NW Arkansas.
Home owners are no problem.
“Ja, and our Socialist friends in the media will help to bring about poor people freezing through the Algore science, let them die and decrease the surplus population.”
-EPA (and anyone who promotes the Global Warming Scam)
I have a pile of Oklahoma coal for blacksmith work. it will work in a wood stove if I make a grate to allow air flow under it. It smells like sulfur asphalt when I burn it.
No neighbors for a mile. ;-)
Wonder if the EPA would find something wrong with Ben Franklin’s downdraft no smoke stove.
Of course they would, he made CO2... And then they would want to charge his family for his decomposition...
Obviously, some of these hooligans require some stringent re-education...
Finally, some people actually understand that limited forest fires are actually good for the environment (ash is good fertilizer with Potassium, for instance...)
Now that is a phrase I have not heard for over 50 years!
> Yep....local law enforcement exercising their prosecutorial
> discretion....Obama surely couldn’t have a problem with that.
That’s why he wants to federalize the local police.
Meanwhile, on another front, laws allowing usage of Marijuana is being pushed in almost every state.
Who is going to hire anyone high all the time???
When harvesting sugar cane in Hawaii, do they still set the fields on fire first to burn off the unwanted biomass?
What does the EPA say about this?
The Managerial State (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_state) doesn't like it when it's not getting a piece of the pie for everyday NEEDS.
The EPA already has the regulations in place. Now The Managers just have to nibble away at the balking states.
For now. The Managers will eventually make the disobedient NH peasants a priority. :)
Welcome to The Managerial State:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_state
It's why we have a Uniparty.
The only way to survive this horsecrap is mass violation and state’s rights.
The kings wood.
IRS, EPA, and Department of Education. And big cuts, stringent non-PC regulatons and penalties for wrongdoing against Americans to NSA and DHS.
The comment seems to have been...
“Let them burn cake!”
LOL
There is an obscure but wonderful Czech film called My Sweet Little Village made just before communism was overthrown there. It shows exactly what you describe, The village idiot who kept birds as food and survived in a little town where people traded food was sent to live in a huge cement city, live in an apartment and work in a factory.
The movie showed the bumbling communist bureaucracy's attempts to manage social problems, such as the town doctor being a drunk and a poor driver, but is nevertheless able to report on citizen misbehavior to the government. It is a wonderfully comic little film, and won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
When I first saw it in the 80s, I felt such an American sense of relief at our contrast to their ridiculous work camps with red stars over the gates and regimentation of the people. I watched it again recently and felt so sad at how much our system has come to resemble what I once laughed at.
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