Posted on 07/02/2023 3:32:19 PM PDT by lowbridge
Attorneys general from 10 states, including New York, plan to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying its failure to review and ensure emissions standards for residential wood-burning stoves has allowed the continued sale of appliances that could worsen pollution.
That means programs that encourage people to trade in older stoves and other wood-burning appliances, such as forced-air furnaces, haven’t necessarily improved air quality, the states say.
“If newer wood heaters do not meet cleaner standards, then programs to change out old wood heaters may provide little health benefits at significant public cost,” the states wrote Thursday in a 60-day notice of intent to sue.
The states involved are New York, Alaska, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont and Washington, as well as the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
They allege that the EPA’s current standards aren’t good enough and that even if they were, the agency’s testing and certification program is so ineffective that it has failed to ensure those standards.
The EPA declined to comment on pending litigation.
The states allege that the EPA’s current standards must be reviewed and that its testing and certification program is so ineffective, it has failed to ensure the existing standards.
The EPA’s Office of Inspector General, in a report released in February, found the EPA’s 2015 performance standards for residential wood heaters was flawed and said the agency has “approved methods that lack clarity and allow too much flexibility.”
“As a result, certification tests may not be accurate, do not reflect real-world conditions, and may result in some wood heaters being certified for sale that emit too much particulate-matter pollution,” the report said.
The agency supports programs aimed at replacing older, dirtier wood heaters with newer, cleaner models and distributed about $82 million in
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The same states going to require pizzas be cooked with a handheld hair dryer.
Properly seasoned firewood would help that which "could" happen.
Those states could set their own standards and require testing to their tastes I believe.
I really don’t give a damn about what government thinks are adequate performance standards.
Those poor folks better pray for massive global warming this coming winter.
Preach it!
Well put.
I guess charcoal BBQ grills, pellet stoves/smokers, propane grills and backpacking stoves will be next to be examined for banning.
I wonder how in rural Alaska or any truly rural deer camp one gets sufficient electricity to operate any form of heat pump so that there is limited pollution?
The EPA 2015 rules have been in effect for eight years and were set under the authority of his most exhalated excellency Barack Obama.
People buying new wood burning wood stoves are buying more efficient heat.
They produce more heat from less wood.
By definition they are cleaner.
These evil bustards simply do not want people burning anything. They want all of us plebes freezing in the dark.
looks like a “sue and settle” to me.
Watch for them to strike a deal .... that brings in more regulation
looks like a “sue and settle” to me.
Watch for them to strike a deal .... that brings in more regulation
I have a gas furnace but choose to heat with wood. I don’t intend to change my lifestyle - regardless of what the facists demand or dictate.
Does this mean I have to seal up my wood burning fireplace? What do we do when the power grid inevitably fails because all the EVs are plugged in? It gets really cold here in Winter!
It’s how the Left works.
Sue a compliant government agency, which settles the case and gives the Left everything they want.
C’mon Fed, mandate the tyranny so we don’t have to look like the bad guys.
Your correct.
We have one of those new fangled EPA wood burners that reburns the smoke. Our chimney practically never needs cleaning. The reburn can be watched from the window in the burner’s door and resembles flames coming from a gas stove.
The absolute worst way to heat with wood is a conventional fireplace, where most of the heat just sails right up the chimney.
My wood stove prefers the
pronoun “Blue Flame”.
Reburns the smoke?
New one on me.
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