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.
READ MORE:http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2014/01/29/epas-wood-burning-stove-ban-has-chilling-consequences-for-many-rural-people/
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