Posted on 03/09/2015 4:03:40 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin are pushing a bill that would prohibit the Department of Natural Resources from enforcing new national regulations limiting pollution from wood-fired heaters.
Federal data from 2011, the latest available, show Wisconsin was second in the country in fine particle emissions from wood stoves, furnaces and heaters with 32,375 tons.
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fine particle emissions eh?
sort of like DUST?
oh danger danger
“A DNR fiscal estimate, however, notes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would likely enforce the limits in Wisconsin if the DNR doesn’t.”
The above is from a different article here:
http://www.channel3000.com/news/politics/bill-would-bar-dnr-from-enforcing-stove-limits/31691882
Probably only because several of them have wood burning stoves in their vacation cabin getaways.
*snort*
Glad to see the states starting to push back against the totalitarian feds.
From my cold dead hearth
How could the feds know how much wood is burned in WI? Do the people report how much wood they burn? How do they measure the dust put out?
I am confident that we will soon see stories with headlines “Walker flips on wood burning” by the liberal media and trumpeted here by those who claim Walker is not conservative.
Freezing to death, the new “green” thing to do...
Bill introduced in Madison to provide exemption in Wisconsin for wood stoves and fireplaces.
FReep mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Better put a limit on how many forest fires are allowed, and also structural and grass and brush fires.
Good for Wisconsin.
Glad to see the states starting to push back against the totalitarian feds.
That’s right.
And I think there would be unwelcome trouble for the Feds if they tried to prevent people from staying warm in all this globull warming.
This recent idea of burning things like wood to keep warm and cook food is dangerous. We need to get back to the old days before these silly ideas became prevalent, like it was 40,000 years or so ago before we invented fire and the land was pure and life spans were only into the teens.
Burn coal.
Fine particle emissions, otherwise known as dust, settle to the ground soon after they are generated and they cause virtually no damage to anything. The forest fires in California caused by poor forest management cause enough pollution to keep the EPA busy for a hundred years....PATHETIC
I’m not going to say that Walker isn’t Conservative. The fact is, I really don’t know much about him & I hope that there will soon be a website that compares & contrasts the 2016 GOP candidates against ea other by Conservative principles if such a website doesn’t already exist.
However...I read an recent article that Walker won’t oppose federal corn ethanol subsidies to IA corn farmers, & that he made that statement while campaigning in IA. Is that correct? Doesn’t that sound like pandering rather than opposing federal handouts on principle?
Not true.
Walker said he wants to end the subsidies, but not cold turkey. One issue Walker brought up is that ethanol producers are not allowed to sell their product into the fuels market under current law. It is only through the EPA program mandates that they can sell to refineries.
What Walker proposed was to phase out the ethanol subsidies while opening the markets to ethanol producers. You see, Walker believes in competition and having another fuel source freely compete with gasoline, diesel, CNG, hydrogen, etc is good for the economy. It will also be less disruptive to the ethanol producers who will not be left out in the cold if subsidies are simply cut off.
Walker's plan is more thoughtful and in-line with conservative principles than either keeping the subsidies in place or just cutting them off cold turkey.
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