STATES SEEK EMISSIONS CUTS FROM UNREGULATED OUTDOOR WOOD STOVES

New York is leading an effort by states in the Northeast to convince EPA to regulate a new source category of wood burning: outdoor wood boilers. This equipment is growing in popularity in response to high energy prices and an allegedly deceptive marketing effort that promotes them as environmentally friendly, even though they emit high levels of particulate matter. A source with the office of New York Attorney General (AG) Eliot Spitzer (D) says that EPA is not legally obligated...