In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency is so concerned that
they’re mulling fining people who burn wood to stay warm.
The New York Times reports the Environmental Protection Agency could
soon declare the Alaskan cities of Fairbanks and North Pole, which have
a combined population of about 100,000, in “serious” noncompliance of
the Clean Air Act early next year.
Like most people in Alaska, the residents of those frozen cities are
burning wood to keep themselves warm this winter. Smoke from
wood-burning stoves increases small-particle pollution, which settles
in low-lying areas and can be breathed in. The EPA thinks this is a big
problem. Eight years ago, the agency ruled that wide swaths of the most
densely populated parts of the region were in “non-attainment” of
federal air quality standards.
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IIRC Nixon put this parasite in place by executive order and the compliant Congress affirmed the miserable monster. It started off simple and even sorta good but, once power hit their lips they sucked it until the honey flowed.....I know it is filthy but so are they.
ReplyDeleteI can only hope it is given the death it deserves - a fiery, miserable thing that affirms that adults are running the show now.
Bolivar
ok -- no wood burning.
ReplyDeleteburn bureaucrats.
So what's the difference? They're all dead wood.
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