Tag: wood smoke

  • Doctor’s Orders: Wood Burning Hazardous to Your Health

    - by Dr. Bri­an Moench, Utah Physi­cians for a Healthy Environment Civ­i­liza­tion orches­trates the curb­ing of one person’s free­doms for the pro­tec­tion of oth­ers and the greater good. When two people’s free­doms are mutu­al­ly exclu­sive, civ­i­liza­tion embraces the con­cept that the free­dom to not be harmed by oth­ers takes prece­dence. Traf­fic laws, zon­ing ordi­nances, and…

  • More Wood to be Burned for Energy in 2015

    - by Erin Voegele, Novem­ber 14, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine The U.S. Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Admin­is­tra­tion has released the Novem­ber issue of its Short-Term Ener­gy Out­look, which includes updat­ed fore­casts for the use of wood and bio­mass fuels in U.S. heat and pow­er production. The EIA pre­dicts that wood bio­mass will be use gen­er­ate 118,000 MWh elec­tric­i­ty per…

  • Biomass Combustion: Harmful on any Scale

    - by Cathy Baiton, Only Clean Air In the same way that indus­tri­al bio­mass com­bus­tion can seri­ous­ly jeop­ar­dize pub­lic health and the envi­ron­ment in com­mu­ni­ties, res­i­den­tial and small­er-scale com­mer­cial bio­mass burn­ing also have adverse impacts on health and air qual­i­ty in neighborhoods. In many cities and towns, increased wood burn­ing, both indoor and out­door, has become a…


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