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10 states plan to sue EPA over standards for residential wood-burning stoves - Infolurker - 07-03-2023
Shitty Blue states want your wood stoves and forced air furnaces and they are suing the EPA to make standards "stricter".
Will they make you a felon with your contraband wood stove?
https://ktvz.com/news/ap-oregon-northwest/2023/07/02/10-states-plan-to-sue-epa-over-standards-for-residential-wood-burning-stoves/
Quote: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.
The states allege that the EPA’s current standards must be reviewed and that its testing and certification program is so ineffective, it has failed to ensure the existing standards.
The EPA’s Office of Inspector General, in a report released in February, found the EPA’s 2015 performance standards for residential wood heaters was flawed and said the agency has “approved methods that lack clarity and allow too much flexibility.”
“As a result, certification tests may not be accurate, do not reflect real-world conditions, and may result in some wood heaters being certified for sale that emit too much particulate-matter pollution,” the report said.
RE: 10 states plan to sue EPA over standards for residential wood-burning stoves - Ninurta - 07-03-2023
Bummer... for them. I don't live in their crappy control freak states, and I don't ask EPA permission to make a stove and burn wood - or coal - if I want to.
Seriously - how do you control folks that just don't give a damn what you say they have to do, and do what they want to do anyhow despite it?
You don't.
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RE: 10 states plan to sue EPA over standards for residential wood-burning stoves - Bally002 - 07-03-2023
(07-03-2023, 05:01 AM)Ninurta Wrote: Bummer... for them. I don't live in their crappy control freak states, and I don't ask EPA permission to make a stove and burn wood - or coal - if I want to.
Seriously - how do you control folks that just don't give a damn what you say they have to do, and do what they want to do anyhow despite it?
You don't.
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You know. Got an axe, cut and split the wood. Chainsaw even better. Minimal cost. Just a bit of sweat and a tank of fuel for the saw.
These bastards have forgot their roots and probably don't give an eff of what their grandparents or ancestors went though or thought.
These greedy souls just want their money. Is all.
Come here I'll shove their heads in the hearth and fry their already broiled brains. Then shove the fire rake up their ugly arse,,,,sideways. When they scream why??? I yell back, "Because!!!!"
Stupid stupid stupids are on the increase. They have no idea.
Bally
RE: 10 states plan to sue EPA over standards for residential wood-burning stoves - Ninurta - 07-03-2023
Last wood stove we had, we welded it up ourselves out of 1/4 inch plate steel. It was a monster - weighed about 300 pounds before we put the fire-bricks in. Could burn either wood or coal in it. I designed it with baffle plates staggered at the top to slow the heat down going up the chimney, and keep more heat in the house instead of sending it straight up the flue. It'd run you out of the house in the dead of winter if you weren't careful with the fire to keep it small.
If we could build one then, we can build one now. Piss on those dipshits and their "regulations".
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