Posted on 10/21/2015 10:05:25 PM PDT by Lonely Bull
SAN FRANCISCO -- Wood-burning heaters -- including modern pollution-fighting wood stoves -- will not be permitted in new homes built in the Bay Area starting next fall, as part of a first-in-the-nation ban approved by air quality regulators Wednesday.
The new rules, approved unanimously by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, will also require every seller of an existing home with a wood-burning fireplace to give buyers a disclosure statement warning of the health risks of wood smoke.
Even wood stoves certified by the federal Environmental Protection Agency as low emission would not be allowed in new homes whose construction begins after Nov. 1, 2016, in the seven Bay Area counties, plus southern parts of Sonoma and Solano counties.
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I can think of a couple ways to word that “disclosure”.
I want out of California. But too much family here to leave behind.
As soon as I retire, I’m gone!
People started using wood to heat home since the caveman. And now, all of a sudden it’s bad. All because some environmental whacko says so.
This country is so completely and utterly f*cked, it’s beyond repair. And now, with Ryan becoming the new Speaker, that pace at which it will fall will only accelerate.
The goal of regulation is removal. Those who claim otherwise are lying liars.
They lie. They lie. They lie.
We lived in California for 17 years thanks to a corporate transfer. But we retired and escaped to Washington State. Conservative Californians, you must form an underground. A free state. Hide your guns and lay low. Build up supplies and prepare for the judgment day. You will persevere.
I would not purchase a house that did not have a wood-burning fireplace in it. Period.
Of course, the chances of me even VISITING the Bay Area are slim, so I guess I don’t have to worry about buying a house there.
Let’s Go Mets!
Regards,
Why no, that isn’t a wood burning stove. It provides heat by burning marijuana shake. Problem solved.
I hope other states don’t follow suit. The nicest part of our home is the wood-burning fireplace.
I left the bay area a few years ago. I know how you feel.
I think I’ll burn some tires when the wind shifts to the southwest.
I’ve been in valleys with winter inversions so bad that the air is blue with woodsmoke, visibility is a tenth of a mile, your eyes sting non-stop and you have a hard time breathing. It is not pleasant.
That said, I’m on the San Fran Prninsula and burn wood every chance i get in the winter. So few people burn here now that we are a real rarity.
This is lawlessness.
Unaccountable and anonymous quasi governmental organization putting forth decrees.
I am so tired of Nanny Staters. I don’t know why anyone lives on the West Coast. Oregon and Washington are almost as bad.
The new rules, approved unanimously by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, will also require every seller of an existing home with a wood-burning fireplace to give buyers a disclosure statement warning of the health risks of wood smoke.
This is just nuts. When you buy or sell a house today you end up with about an inch of paperwork at closing (the vast majority of which is never read by the average person). So now if you are in the Bay Area you will get another piece of useless paperwork because the state says so.
We just left Washington state - in time to avoid the coming GPS they want to put in every vehicle to tax mileage.
I thought this happened years ago.
They bequeathed us the freest nation to ever grace the Earth and we have surrendered it for a pocket full of magic beans (government protections that don’t work).
They fought a war to throw off a government that was far less despotic than the one we live under today (for the most part. We don’t quarter soldiers in our home, yet).
I grew up in the 1970s and the changes in this country since then are just unimaginable. I can’t fathom what the Founders would say to me if I were able to speak to them.
For liberals regulation is code for banning, or confiscation, or taxing the sh1t out of something they dont like.
Be sure to drop the clutch on the way out.
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