Our ever so helpful government has decided that your wood burning stove is now a danger to the world. In another attempt to outlaw the off grid lifestyle, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the same agency that was recently caught using drones to spy on Americans, is now going after home owners who use Wood Burning Stoves to heat their homes.
Shortly after the re-election of President Obama, the agency announced new radical environmental regulations that threaten to effect people who live off the grid. The EPA’s new environmental regulations reduce the amount of airborne fine-particle matter from 15 micrograms to 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air.
This means that most wood burning stoves would now fall into a class deemed unacceptable under these new draconian measures. The EPA has even launched a nifty new website called burn wise to try to sway public opinion.
On their site, while trying to convince people to get rid of their old stoves and buy the new EPA-certified stoves, they state that these older stove must be scraped, and cannot be resold.
From the EPA Site:
The local air pollution agency says I can’t sell my old wood stove to help pay for an EPA-certified wood stove. Why is that?
Replacing an older stove with a cleaner-burning stove will not improve air quality if the older stove is reused somewhere else. For this reason, wood stove change out programs usually require older stoves to be destroyed and recycled as scrap metal, or rendered inoperable.
Let’s hope this doesn’t fall under the jurisdiction of the newly created Department of Homeland Security Environmental Justice Units. The next thing you know we might all be getting a knock at the door….. Your Neighbor reported that you might be burning some wood, do you mind if we take a look around?
Fantastic! I use a sixteen year old wood stove to supplement the heat produced by my sixteen year old HVAC. At least none of my neighbors will turn me in because we’re all keeping ourselves warm with wood here. I’d like to see the EPA try to get up my driveway in the winter anyway.
The single largest consumer of fossil fuels and the single largest polluter of the earth, exempt from all pollution regulations is the US War machine, the Pentagon. how ’bout those burn pits?
HAHAHAHA they want better air quality? Maybe they should think about stopping “CHEMTRAILING” for starters!
EXACTLY!! I just made a comment and saw yours. Plus they’re losing far too much money from lack of eletric cost.
Of course, like all other idiot ideas the gummit has, they forgot about the enforcement of such a directive. How are they going to do it? Who is going to go door to door to physically take out these stoves? Up here in Adirondack country, I would estimate a household ratio of three or four guns per stove… just saying…
you know unfortunately these kinds of things are going to become an everyday occurrence and if people do not rise up, put pressure on their elected officials to shut these assholes down they will keep doing it. unfortunately once some of the freedoms are gone then we never get back to where we were before they steal them. it just seems to me that people like the ones at the EPA are involved in trying to push the people in this country to an armed revolt. this scares me because we all know that there is something up their sleeves if they are deliberately trying to do this. it is almost like they are daring us.
so am i to take it that since you are writing into this site you are one of two types of people. you are either a totally blind blithering idiot or you are a totally blind blithering government person that is eves dropping on the good people of this site. if you do not want to get involved shut the hell up and leave this site alone. at least most of us can still get a hard on without the use of pills you liberal commie.
What a joke! For cleaner air sakes? Yeah, what about all of your chemtrail sprayings???? Making us sick and harming our crops and animals.
They just want our money. Using wood stoves looses up to many hundreds per month on heating and cooking sources. Plus they just want to havemore control on us… more robot material.
This is total BS, but you still can build your own Rocket Mass Heater on a very small budget. Many of the components can be found in the junkyard. Search for “rocket mass heater” on youtube. Not only is it inexpensive to build, it’s very efficient and you will most likely burn less wood.
some of these responses are so paranoid! there is no way big brother is going to come in your house and remove your wood burning stove. Give your blood pressure a break and calm down.
all it takes is some knobhead british politician to see and we have the same over here
Fuck that! They’re so full of bullshit. The government does more to pollute than any wood-burning person. The only reason they want us on the grid is to control us. It would be a healthier planet if we all got off of the grid. Maybe, when the economy dries up, it’ll be the great equalizer, and they won’t have the funds to pull this nonsense anymore. I look forward to the day that the government no longer has the means to stalk and harass innocent people.
those Taylor outside wood stoves will hold a couple “of” dead animals for nightly burning,along with several logs,for your hot water heating pleasure.
Who gets fined if there is a Forest fire? Just thought I’d ask.
ok my FB is shut down anow I cant heat my house with wood???? is mr. president in the heating oil business also???? WTF IS GOING ON!!!!!!!!!!!
What’s next. No guns to kill animals, no wood stoves to heat our homes – or can’t afford a new one! Quick, where is the KoolAid we’re suppose to drink? We are getting the same treatment we gave the native Indians back in the day. “Give us your guns and we will take care of you.” – The US Gov’t. Look where they are now!!!
Wow. I dont like the government getting their grubby hands into my business any more than the next but i think everyone her is over reacting just a little. I just went to this site and this is the first ive heard of this wood burning stove thing. but from what ive read it sounds like they just want people to use CLEANER burning wood stove. their not saying you cant use one at all. you would think OFF THE GRID people who typically use alternative / renewable energy would have an appriciation for a push to be greener/ eco-friendly.
and before anyone says it. no im not pro-government or any of that crap nor am i anti-gov either. i dont wanna pay insane taxes or give up my guns any more than the next guy.
SLEE- In Looney California they have spare the air days. No one and that’s no one is allowed to burn any wood in any fireplace. That also includes that $4 dollar a log that’s especially engineered to not pollute. They are damaging that business all across the state. Humans have been burning wood since hey have been here, And there is no shortage of humans or lifespan.
Maybe they should ban forest fires.
Uh …anyone have a source for this? I can find *nothing* about EPA taking any action such as the one described. As an OWB owner myself, obviously a concern, but my bullsh*t detector has fresh batteries and it’s quite loud.
The angle of this article is disgusting. These decisions are often driven by private lobbies not “the government”. I would make a sure bet the “clean-burning” NG industry has a heavy hand in this.
Actually, the wood stove regs started with CITIZENS who complained, yet had no recourse, on neighbors who were smoking up their entire valley.
It’s the complete opposite of a private lobby – rather completely grassroots.
What would you do if you were king and a bunch of citizens came to you and said a dangerous haze was hanging over their entire are due to dirty wood burning?
Its called UN Agenda 21, if you don’t know what it is you better learn. Under this plan they will decide how you live, and you will have NO property rights. This is just the beginning, fight it locally now or you will be sory.