About nine years ago, April and Greg Bodette of Glover decided to get an outdoor wood boiler. They’d previously used a wood stove to heat their house, but the smoke and dust was a major drawback: They ...

WAUSAU, Wis.—An explosion in the number of outdoor wood-fired boilers to heat homes is creating a new air quality problem—their smoke is choking neighbors. Over the past three years, the Wisconsin ...

CHICOPEE - The state has approved the Board of Health's new regulation banning outdoor wood burning boilers in the city. "As far as we're concerned, they're banned," Board of Health member Richard G.

Beth Terra invited her parents to Thanksgiving dinner at her home in New Hartford. But the folks couldn’t stay – in fact, they all had to leave. The problem was acrid smoke from a neighbor’s outdoor ...

Coming this spring, new state regulations will make it more difficult and costly to install outdoor wood-fired boilers — a move that's sparked debate between environmentalists and proponents of the ...

PLATTSBURGH — The Plattsburgh Town Council will hold one more public hearing on proposed wood-boiler regulations. Local Law 1 of 2009, the Town of Plattsburgh Outdoor Wood Boilers Local Law, is ...

HURLEY – A town resident has presented the Hurley Town Board with a proposed local law to regulate the use of outdoor wood-burning boilers. Patricia Davis said the proposal, which she wrote herself, ...

ALBANY — The state Department of Environmental Conservation has released proposed regulations that it said would “dramatically cut pollution from outdoor wood boilers,” which the agency characterized ...

CLARENDON Rules governing outdoor wood-fired boilers may be tightened on the state and local level as officials scrutinize the equipment. The Clarendon Select Board has received health and nuisance ...

If you are thinking about buying an outdoor wood-fired boiler, here are some tips from the state Department of Environmental Protection: • Check to be sure it is legal to install and operate one in ...

Waitsfield, VT - Many older outdoor wood-fired boilers (OWBs) that are not certified to meet Vermont’s emissions standards are required by law to be permanently retired by the end of 2012.