February 16, 2014

EPA's Wood-Burning Stove Ban Has Chilling Consequences For Many Rural People

It seems that even wood isn’t green or renewable enough anymore.  The EPA has recently banned the production and sale of 80 percent of America’s current wood-burning stoves, the oldest heating method known to mankind and mainstay of rural homes and many of our nation’s poorest residents. The agency’s stringent one-size-fits-all rules apply equally to heavily air-polluted cities and far cleaner plus typically colder off-grid wilderness areas such as large regions of Alaska and the American West.

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2 comments:

rodin said...

Surely this story is from the Onion?

Then again, when you can apply water rates to rainwater....

Only one step away from taxing air...

Anonymous said...

The stupid- and ignorant-masses have NO ONE to blame but themselves for the shit getting so out-of-hand as it has. This is an effort to bring/force people into cities and larger-and-larger towns, just as what is done to herd-animals to make it easier to control them for the purposes of the owner/controller.

This is such a black-and-white issue that it is frankly WHOLLY INEXCUSABLE that this would be allowed to stand, but I have come to expect nothing less from far too many people who have made the conscious decision to remain willfully-ignorant.

Lindsey