The bill that would have created tougher regulations on outdoor wood-burning furances for home-heating died in the Environment Committee
“ Not only was the state legislature unwilling to do anything at all about outdoor wood furnaces/boilers – they would not even deal with wood smoke as a public health nuisance,” said Nancy Alderman, a public health advocate. ” What kind of state are we living in? We have a large number of people in this state being made sick from neighbor’s outdoor wood furnaces/boilers and we have a state department of health that is unwilling to deal with the wood smoke problem – and in fact the Association of Local Health Directors testified against adding wood smoke to the Public Health Nuisance Code – and a legislature that is unwilling to help in any way.”