Well, in the Alaskan interior, winters can be brutal. With
temperatures dropping below zero, burning wood is the only viable way
for Alaskans in these rather desolate areas to stay warm. Yet,
government thinks this is a problem concerning small-particle pollution.
In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency is so concerned that
they’re mulling fining people who burn wood to stay warm. John Daniel
Davidson, a senior correspondent for The Federalist (and Alaskan native)
had more:
If only the bureaucrats in Washington DC knew what the wolf-dog knew. But alas, now comes the federal government to tell the inhabitants of Alaska’s interior that, really, they should not be building fires to keep themselves warm during the winter. The New York Times reports the Environmental Protection Agency could soon declare the Alaskan cities of Fairbanks and North Pole, which have a combined population of about 100,000, in “serious” noncompliance of the Clean Air Act early next year. Like most people in Alaska, the residents of those frozen cities are burning wood to keep themselves warm this winter. Smoke from wood-burning stoves increases small-particle pollution, which settles in low-lying areas and can be breathed in. The EPA thinks this is a big problem. Eight years ago, the agency ruled that wide swaths of the most densely populated parts of the region were in “non-attainment” of federal air quality standards.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/01/01/epa-to-alaskans-we-might-fine-you-for-burning-wood-to-stay-warm-n2266017
If only the bureaucrats in Washington DC knew what the wolf-dog knew. But alas, now comes the federal government to tell the inhabitants of Alaska’s interior that, really, they should not be building fires to keep themselves warm during the winter. The New York Times reports the Environmental Protection Agency could soon declare the Alaskan cities of Fairbanks and North Pole, which have a combined population of about 100,000, in “serious” noncompliance of the Clean Air Act early next year. Like most people in Alaska, the residents of those frozen cities are burning wood to keep themselves warm this winter. Smoke from wood-burning stoves increases small-particle pollution, which settles in low-lying areas and can be breathed in. The EPA thinks this is a big problem. Eight years ago, the agency ruled that wide swaths of the most densely populated parts of the region were in “non-attainment” of federal air quality standards.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/01/01/epa-to-alaskans-we-might-fine-you-for-burning-wood-to-stay-warm-n2266017
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