Tag: wood stoves
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Doctor’s Orders: Wood Burning Hazardous to Your Health
– by Dr. Brian Moench, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment Civilization orchestrates the curbing of one person’s freedoms for the protection of others and the greater good. When two people’s freedoms are mutually exclusive, civilization embraces the concept that the freedom to not be harmed by others takes precedence. Traffic laws, zoning ordinances, and…
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$355,375 Grant to Install Biomass Heating in Massachusetts Elementary Schools
– Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, May 5, 2015, Biomass Magazine The administration of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito has announced grant funding for Heath Elementary School in Heath and the Hawlemont Elementary School in Charlemont to convert to highly efficient biomass boilers from their existing oil heating systems.…
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Wood Stoves a Major Contributor to “Unhealthy” Air Days in Clallam County, WA
Read The Biomass Monitor’s coverage of the story behind these air pollution tests: “Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on the Olympic Peninsula” – by Arwyn Rice, July 14, 2014, Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — Air quality in central and eastern Clallam County is generally good, but wood burning for home heating and transportation-related pollutants are contributing to occasional “unhealthy”…