I didn't realize until over the weekend when I was looking into buying a wood burner for the barn at my family's farm. As of December 1, 2015 (three weeks from tomorrow) the EPA will be enacting a ban on all sales of wood burning stoves that emit any more than 12 micrograms of airborne fine-particulate matter - the current standard is 15 micrograms. The ban is estimated to cease the production and sale of nearly 80% of the wood burning stoves currently available on the market.

 

The ban does not affect stoves currently installed in homes. It is currently estimated that some 2.4 million United States households heat with wood.

 

 

Here is a list of the stoves currently certified by the EPA under their 2015 Standards of Performance

As reported by the Washington Times:

 

The new standard for the great outdoors reduces the legal limit for airborne fine-particle matter from 15 micrograms per cubic meter of air to 12 micrograms. To put in context how overly restrictive that is, secondhand tobacco smoke in a closed car can expose a person to 3,000-4,000 micrograms of soot per cubic meter, according to the agency.

We heat our home and our water with an outdoor wood stove. LOVE IT!

 

It is so warm in my house that I am usually throwing the covers off of me when I'm sleeping! My girl is usually walking around in shorts and a tank during winter. If it does get a little chilly, just turn the heat up and throw a few more logs into the stove.

We have a Buicke Stove we burn coal and mostly wood in and central air. We use the wood stove just because we enjoy sitting around a fire. I love reading a book while doing so.

I wonder if at some point these limits on particulate levels will deem fire places in new homes a no-no?

Craziness. Sounds like the EPA is in bed with electric and gas providers. I honestly can't think of a better way to heat a home than a wood burning stove or a fireplace.

Craziness. Sounds like the EPA is in bed with electric and gas providers. I honestly can't think of a better way to heat a home than a wood burning stove or a fireplace.

 

I assume the global warming crowd is somewhere in the mix.

I wonder if at some point these limits on particulate levels will deem fire places in new homes a no-no?

 

I'd have to assume that commercially sold fire pits are going to be banned in pretty short order.

I guess camp fires are not too far away either.

Dang, doesn't anyone have electric or gas?

I assume the global warming crowd is somewhere in the mix.

 

Sounds about right.

Dang, doesn't anyone have electric or gas?

 

I have a gas furnace, a gas fireplace, and a wood burning stove in my home. I prefer the wood burning stove. Thankfully since its been in this house since I moved in, the EPA has to deal with my contribution to global warming.

Out of control government agencies are a REAL problem in this country. How many people are going to be negatively affected by this nonsense that some unelected Washington bureaucrats just dreamed up. Nobody voted on this, correct? Nobody voted for the people who decided this, correct? UGH....

My grandparents on both sides always had wood burning stoves when I was growing up. For me, they have always had a sort of nostalgic feeling. I would love to have one in my house, but it's not a huge deal with me either way.

Out of control government agencies are a REAL problem in this country. How many people are going to be negatively affected by this nonsense that some unelected Washington bureaucrats just dreamed up. Nobody voted on this, correct? Nobody voted for the people who decided this, correct? UGH....

 

Preach on brother man. The EPA can kiss my "donkey"!!!