10 states plan to sue EPA over standards for residential wood-burning stoves

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Now the CC cult/religion are coming after your wood stove.
I guess it's what folks get who want to use a renewable energy source that the .gov can't control.
It just goes to show that some states are more than willing to give up their state rights (and yours) to big daddy fed .gov.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Attorneys general from 10 states 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 Alaska, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, 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.
 
Now the CC cult/religion are coming after your wood stove.
I guess it's what folks get who want to use a renewable energy source that the .gov can't control.
It just goes to show that some states are more than willing to give up their state rights (and yours) to big daddy fed .gov.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Attorneys general from 10 states 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 Alaska, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, 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.
Do you not understand what you article is saying? Those states are demanding that the EPA produce tighter regulations on residential wood-burning stoves.
 
Do you not understand what you article is saying? Those states are demanding that the EPA produce tighter regulations on residential wood-burning stoves.
Yes, they are fuckin' retarded.

So say you have a "pre-ban" wood stove, are those states going to make you replace it with a "approved" model?

Maybe they will come around to your woodpile and test the moisture content to insure you burn seasoned wood.

Fuck all you CC weenies.
 
Yes, they are fuckin' retarded.

So say you have a "pre-ban" wood stove, are those states going to make you replace it with a "approved" model?

Maybe they will come around to your woodpile and test the moisture content to insure you burn seasoned wood.

Fuck all you CC weenies.
No, they are not going to make you replace it. But if you want to buy a new one, the new one will have to meet the standards they set. And right now, those ten states don't think those standards are tight enough.

Jeez, put on your thinking cap once in a while.
 
No, they are not going to make you replace it. But if you want to buy a new one, the new one will have to meet the standards they set. And right now, those ten states don't think those standards are tight enough.

Jeez, put on your thinking cap once in a while.
How do you know? 10 different states, ten different lame-brained "ideas".

Oh they will be all about "mah states rights" then after the .gov tells them how far they can go.
 
No, they are not going to make you replace it. But if you want to buy a new one, the new one will have to meet the standards they set. And right now, those ten states don't think those standards are tight enough.

Jeez, put on your thinking cap once in a while.
I've been at the combustion game for a long time. I've done everything from gas to coal to bunker c to refuse burning for waste to energy. The idea that you can regulate emissions from a wood stove is absolutely ridiculous. A person would have to install a balanced draft system and a flue gas analyzer and a CEMS mitigation system costing many times the amount stove would cost. He would then have to get a license to use the mitigation chemicals.

There is no way you can make a wood stove burn to compliance simply by designing the flu passages.
 
I wonder if anybody is paying attention all the green rules and regulations that have been imposed on us and especially in Europe. And no matter how many electric cars, how much green solar and wind energy is generated, how many electric stoves replace gas ones, how many scrubbers they put on the factories, no matter how much we get greener and greener. . .

. . .it hasn't seemed to make a dent in the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere and it darn sure hasn't reduced it anywhere.

Isn't it time to sort of evaluate that before we deny people the pure aesthetic and mind calming pleasure of enjoying their fireplace on a cold winter night or backing up to the wood stove when you come in from shoveling snow?
 
Isn't it time to sort of evaluate that before we deny people the pure aesthetic and mind calming pleasure of enjoying their fireplace on a cold winter night or backing up to the wood stove when you come in from shoveling snow?
That because those things are enjoyable and currently beyond the green weenie's control.

I'm of the opinion that the climate cult wants everyone to be as miserable as they are.
 
That because those things are enjoyable and currently beyond the green weenie's control.

I'm of the opinion that the climate cult wants everyone to be as miserable as they are.
There is no attempt here to make people give up stoves they already own. Why do you make believe that is the case?
 

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