Posted on 11/17/2013 9:09:47 AM PST by rktman
A lawsuit filed against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by seven states is seeking to force the federal agency to impose stringent new regulations on residential wood-burning heaters, which they claim “can increase particle pollution to levels that cause significant health concerns.” (See EPA wood-burning lawsuit.pdf)
The lawsuit, filed last month in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the attorneys general of Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont, is directed against currently unregulated “indoor and outdoor wood boilers,” which have become an increasingly popular way to heat homes, particularly in rural areas.
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Most of the warming alarmists have forgotten-or choose to ignore-that Greenland was actually green in the 9th-10th century, some of the Vikings went there to live, and left when it got cold again. Wine was once produced in England, from grapes grown there, too. Humans can’t control the weather or climate-the lunatics just can’t stand that some of us are smart enough to provide cheaper heat for ourselves, and insist on being left alone to do it.
It is a little colder here every winter, and a nice pile of wood for my fireplace and wood stove beats the price of furnace heat any day...
Great, you just gave the EPA their next idea.
They will want to raise our taxes to pay for it.
This is about DESTROYING SELF SUFFICIENCY!!!
They can’t CONTROL YOU IF YOU’RE SELF SUFFICIENT.
If you’re not DEPENDENT ON UTILITIES CONTROLLED BY THE GOV’T, their power is diminished.
Well, I know I for one will be more than happy to send them more money. If you got anything left over, you ain’t paying enough. LOL!
Snow covered self cleaning solar panels?
Apparently, yes.
http://www.scirustechnologies.com/time_lapse_video_8.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQQeRXZa5_E
Attorneys general of Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont, are showing extreme political cowardice. If they don’t like them ban them in your own state. Don’t look to the feds to provide political cover for you.
oh no your going to get a lecture from another Freeper on that statement.
We have a planet to save! Don't bother with the details? /s
Oh, wow-who is that? I’ve been in lots of pleasant and informative discussions here with other Freepers on everything from the last Ice Age to the Medieval Warming period to the present climate-I apparently missed any disagreements, and enjoyed the conversations.
BTW-I agree 100% with your tagline...
Everyone on the planet knows that the bullsh!t that went down in the Klamath basin was a straight up land grab scheme perpetrated under the guise of “protecting the environment”. It’s the equivalent of the local realtor shooting you so they can sell your property at a profit. People used to be strung up from the nearest tree for pulling this kind of sh!t.
I hope they include some SEVERE additional sanctions on anyone that might be caught roasting a marsh mellow on those wood fires. The carbon emitted by those charred marsh mellows is a crime in the struggle to save the planet.
I bet the real problem is that the State cannot tax wood cut on private property. So it must be transformed into a taxable form of energy.
If only there was a way to harness the hot air emanating from D.C.
I wish it were. This along with other recent actions suggests to me that there is an awareness by DC of many rural Americans move toward greater personal independence and what that could mean for their plans.
My thought exactly, but of course the bastards won’t do that. They’ll move to Texas and join the Californicators in F..ing it up as well.
Pied piper EPA and all the rats just head to China, there’s plenty of atmosphere to scrub over there and then hop over to fukashima and wave the magic wand over that, IF you REALLY want to HELP. Aholes
In Hillsborough County, Florida (Tampa area), one is supposed to have a permit for a camp fire. Why? I have no idea.
If the EPA issues rules on wood burners, it will be a national edict, not just the seven states whose AGs are representing. In rural areas propane is the alternative to wood for heat so the demand/price for propane will increase.
Right now. the EPA is trying to shut down coal fired electric generation. The present lower price for natural gas will end as it will take a lot of NG to replace coal. Windmills & solar can’t do it due to too many reasons to list here.
They will get the air so clean and we will have a lot less rainfall….
Raindrops begin forming when water vapor condenses on micrometer-sized particles of dust floating in the atmosphere. The dust particles grow to millimeter-sized droplets, which are heavy enough to begin falling. As they fall, the droplets accumulate more and more moisture, until they become the large raindrops that we see here on the ground.
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