Here's a great article posted on Clean Air Revival:
Posted: January 15th, 2007- http://burningissues.org/blog/
Wood Smoke Dissipates Rapidly
It is often stated and thought that wood smoke pollution drops off rapidly with distance from the source. Proponents of wood burning will often say that if you are a few hundred feet away from a fire there is no problem. It is as though they think that wood smoke dispersion follows some kind of a square law like electric fields; double the distance and the effect is reduced by a factor of four. Other people reason that smoke is hot and hot air rises so smoke will just float up and away.
Unfortunately, smoke does not behave that way. The reasons being that smoke is that smoke is airborne and heavier than air. The dispersion of wood smoke is at the mercy of air conditions. The important factors include wind direction, inversion layers, and temperature.
Lets look at a few examples. Smoke doesn’t just rise and disappear. The temperature of the smoke particles cool and then they are no longer buoyed upward and so they drift downward. In fact, the particles can puddle in low valleys. There is a study in the State of Washington that showed that children living in valleys enjoyed less lung function than children living on mountain ridges. Moral of the story: you don’t want to live below a wood burner.
Temperature inversions which often occur on clear, cold, calm nights can trap airborne pollutants relatively close to the ground. Inversion layers are a real problem in the San Francisco Bay area because inversion layers are frequent and often below eighty feet and can trap most pollutants between the mountains and the Bay.
Wind is the big culprit. If you are up wind from a burner, you have no problem. If you are downwind, you will obviously get all his smoke. If there is no wind, the smoke will puddle in his imediate neighborhood. We have all seen that the case where smoke will lazily emerge from a chimney, drift horizontally a short distance, and settle obnoxiously in a neighbors yard.
A few days ago, when traveling through the Sea Ranch along the Sonoma coast in California, we passed a burning trash pile. The smoke was a visible haze at road level for at least two miles thanks to a light North wind. Once, I flew over forest file in Arizona and one could clearly see a narrow plum of smoke that extended a hundred miles or more. Studies have shown that fine particulates can stay airborne for three weeks and cover 700 miles unless washed out by rain. So anyone who says that just being a few hundred feet from a neighbor solves the problem is just blowing smoke.
Clean Air Revival---Burning Issues--web site
Great web site for information......
http://burningissues.org/car-www/index.html
The Importance of Clean Air
Clean Air Revival provides public education about the medical hazards of exposure to wood smoke and other fine particulate pollution. Smoke from residential burning of wood and coal, wood burning restaurants and outdoor burning of wood, leaves, crops, tires and debris is permeating our neighborhoods, resulting in high ground level concentrations of toxic air pollution.
Statement of Objectives: Clean Air Revival, Inc.
Burning Issues is a project of Clean Air Revival, Inc., a 501C-3 non profit educational organization. Clean Air Revival, Inc. is registered with the Registry of Charitable Trusts in the State of California. Our organization number is #1686895.
Burning Issues depends on your donations and grants. 100% of funds further research, office operating expense and education. All labor and our building are donated. There are no paid employees. Please consider donating generously. Your donation helps spread life saving science. Our award winning website: http://burningissues.org is visited by 1,800 people daily from all over the world.
Burning Issues has an international membership and was founded by Mary J. Rozenberg, at the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club Clean Air Committee in 1987. It is devoted to the improvement of ambient air quality through the reduction of Particulate Pollution, i. e., solid particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter.
The most common sources of Particulate Pollution are residential wood burning (RWB) and coal burning, forest and agriculture burning, and diesel and auto exhaust. The extent of the severity of the fine particulate problem can be grasped in the estimate that 60,000 people die annually in the United States from the effects of these particles. Once emitted they are impossible to clean up. More than half of the fine particulate is caused by fewer than 10% of the population using the dirtiest fuels for recreation and heating.
The principal activity of Burning Issues is the collection and dissemination of the latest science information regarding health effects, economic impacts, and individual actions to reduce and stop solid fuel combustion. Burning Issues also actively does particulate monitoring and has published the results.
Mary Rozenberg, President, PO Box 1045, Point Arena, CA 95468, (707)882-3601, e-mail = Mary.Rozenberg@gmail.com
http://burningissues.org
http://burningissues.org/car-www/index.html
The Importance of Clean Air
Clean Air Revival provides public education about the medical hazards of exposure to wood smoke and other fine particulate pollution. Smoke from residential burning of wood and coal, wood burning restaurants and outdoor burning of wood, leaves, crops, tires and debris is permeating our neighborhoods, resulting in high ground level concentrations of toxic air pollution.
Statement of Objectives: Clean Air Revival, Inc.
Burning Issues is a project of Clean Air Revival, Inc., a 501C-3 non profit educational organization. Clean Air Revival, Inc. is registered with the Registry of Charitable Trusts in the State of California. Our organization number is #1686895.
Burning Issues depends on your donations and grants. 100% of funds further research, office operating expense and education. All labor and our building are donated. There are no paid employees. Please consider donating generously. Your donation helps spread life saving science. Our award winning website: http://burningissues.org is visited by 1,800 people daily from all over the world.
Burning Issues has an international membership and was founded by Mary J. Rozenberg, at the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club Clean Air Committee in 1987. It is devoted to the improvement of ambient air quality through the reduction of Particulate Pollution, i. e., solid particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter.
The most common sources of Particulate Pollution are residential wood burning (RWB) and coal burning, forest and agriculture burning, and diesel and auto exhaust. The extent of the severity of the fine particulate problem can be grasped in the estimate that 60,000 people die annually in the United States from the effects of these particles. Once emitted they are impossible to clean up. More than half of the fine particulate is caused by fewer than 10% of the population using the dirtiest fuels for recreation and heating.
The principal activity of Burning Issues is the collection and dissemination of the latest science information regarding health effects, economic impacts, and individual actions to reduce and stop solid fuel combustion. Burning Issues also actively does particulate monitoring and has published the results.
Mary Rozenberg, President, PO Box 1045, Point Arena, CA 95468, (707)882-3601, e-mail = Mary.Rozenberg@gmail.com
http://burningissues.org
Wood Smoke Has Got To Go!---letter to editor
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Letter to the Editor
By Leonard F. Bradley
Parksville
© Copyright 2007 Parksville Qualicum News
Feb 27 2007
Most of us have heard the slogan: Think globally — Act locally.
I would like to commend the Mayor and Council of Parksville for their progressive action in moving to eliminate burning in our city. Such action is important globally and locally.
Globally thinking British Columbians are buying smaller cars, reducing air travel, replacing light bulbs and doing many other things to reduce their emissions.
Yet, others will burn anything indiscriminately even though in Parksville, the city will, without charge, pick up and chip many of the items they are burning.
Locally, we must all become more aware that breathing in smoke of any sort is dangerous to health. Many studies have demonstrated that wood smoke, for example, contains up to a hundred carcinogenic substances. That is why many jurisdictions have banned burning.
Breathing in wood smoke harms our lungs. Moreover, small particles pass through lungs into the blood and heart. Why do we allow this to be done?
It is time to end to the frontier mentality of “anything goes.” Let’s clean up our air for the sake of Parksville and the planet.
By Leonard F. Bradley
Parksville
© Copyright 2007 Parksville Qualicum News
Feb 27 2007
Most of us have heard the slogan: Think globally — Act locally.
I would like to commend the Mayor and Council of Parksville for their progressive action in moving to eliminate burning in our city. Such action is important globally and locally.
Globally thinking British Columbians are buying smaller cars, reducing air travel, replacing light bulbs and doing many other things to reduce their emissions.
Yet, others will burn anything indiscriminately even though in Parksville, the city will, without charge, pick up and chip many of the items they are burning.
Locally, we must all become more aware that breathing in smoke of any sort is dangerous to health. Many studies have demonstrated that wood smoke, for example, contains up to a hundred carcinogenic substances. That is why many jurisdictions have banned burning.
Breathing in wood smoke harms our lungs. Moreover, small particles pass through lungs into the blood and heart. Why do we allow this to be done?
It is time to end to the frontier mentality of “anything goes.” Let’s clean up our air for the sake of Parksville and the planet.
Bono---"Smoked Out" too!
Note...even multi-million homes can be "smoked out" by wood emissions!
Latest News: Bono, the lead singer of U2 is smoked out!
Among the Rich, a New Dispute Over Air Rights - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/nyregion/16bono.html?th&emc=th
Among the Rich, a New Dispute Over Air Rights
By ALLEN SALKIN
Published: May 16, 2007
It’s not the war against third world debt, but still.
Skip to next paragraph
Evan Agostini/Getty Images
Bono, the lead singer of U2, the pop music group, lives in a penthouse at the San Remo.
The New York Times
Bono, the lead singer of U2 and a globetrotting activist for social causes, has become involved in a battle that may be as intractable as loan burdens in the developing world — a Manhattan co-op dispute.
One of his adversaries is a fellow rocker, Billy Squier, best known for 1980s songs like “The Stroke.” The two live in the San Remo, a storied building with twin towers that loom over Central Park West. (It is the same building that rejected Madonna in 1985 when she sought to buy an apartment.)
The dispute is over whether hazardous smoke from fireplaces, including Mr. Squier’s, is drifting from chimneys into the penthouse duplex where Bono lives with his wife and four children. About a year ago the co-op board banned the use of fireplaces throughout the building, angering fireplace owners, who love a pine-scented blaze in the city as well as their enhanced property values.
As with other co-op disputes, exact details are hard to pin down because these buildings are essentially private clubs run by a board of elected tenants, and anyone who airs grievances in public risks being ostracized in his own hallway, sometimes for generations. The San Remo, at West 74th Street, is home to many prominent New Yorkers, including Steve Martin, Steven Spielberg, the producers Scott Rudin and James L. Nederlander, and the writers Andrew Tobias and Marshall Brickman.
Interviews with more than a dozen residents and with associates of Bono and Mr. Squier present a consistent picture of events in a place where even the most privileged property owners cannot escape the concerns of neighbors.
The dispute started, residents say, when Bono bought his penthouse in the building’s north tower in April 2003 from Steve Jobs, a founder of Apple Computer, for around the $14.5 million asking price. Mr. Jobs had spent millions on renovations, including adding a residential floor, said the listing broker, Roger Erickson, now a senior managing director at Sotheby’s International Realty. Mr. Jobs never spent a night in the apartment, Mr. Erickson said.
At some point after moving in, Bono (who was born Paul Hewson) and his wife, Ali Hewson, who also own homes in Dublin and the south of France, noticed smoke drifting toward their apartment from chimneys in the roof, according to residents in the building familiar with the situation.
The Hewsons approached the co-op board about the smoke and related chimney problems. “Bono was so nice,” said Leni May, whose husband, Peter May, is a member of the board. “He said, ‘Listen, whatever I can do to get these things working, but it’s emptying into my apartment and I can’t have smoke like that.’ ” One of the Hewsons’ children has asthma, he told the board, Ms. May said. The couple have two daughters, 18 and 15, and two sons, 7 and 5.
Other residents had complained about smoke entering their apartments through faulty flues in the 1930 building. The board banned the use of fireplaces while the problems were studied.
Soon, hackles went up, notably those of Mr. Squier, whose apartment on the third floor includes a fireplace, and Mark Gordon, another resident with a fireplace.
Only about 40 of the building’s roughly 135 apartments have fireplaces, said Phyliss Koch, a real estate broker who has lived in the San Remo for 29 years and has been the listing agent in many sales there. Renovations over the years may have caused chimney ventilation problems, she added. Mr. Gordon sent at least one flier through the building seeking to raise awareness about the fireplace issue, residents said.
The fireplace owners’ position was that the Hewsons had complained when they saw the smoke coming toward their penthouse, not because they had evidence that harmful pollution was entering their living quarters, said a longtime friend and tour manager of Mr. Squier’s.
“It was just assumed that because they could see the exhaust, that would present a problem to their children,” the tour manager said, adding that Mr. Squier, whose last hit was “Rock Me Tonight” in 1984, had discussed the issue in detail with him. (Mr. Squier did not respond to messages left with an assistant seeking comment.)
Mr. Gordon declined to comment, beyond saying: “I don’t want to see this in the press in any way whatsoever. It could only be more damaging to the situation. The situation is a delicate and private one.”
The fireplace complaint is not a case of a prima donna pop star making unreasonable demands, said a representative from Principle Management, the company that manages Bono’s band, U2.
“This is not a Bono issue,” the representative said. “It’s a building issue. It’s about health and safety regulations.” Neither Bono, who was in Germany this week to press the Group of 8 nations for more African aid, nor his wife would comment, the representative said.
Meanwhile, the news from experts brought in by the San Remo to examine the fireplaces has not been good. “Apparently, the mistakes were made before any of us moved into the San Remo,” said Ms. May, who is chairwoman of the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. “It’s to the point where we’re not to code and we can’t fix it. It’s not fixable.”
Other residents said the problem is that the building chimneys end at a height that is hazardously close to the Hewsons’ tower duplex, and that emissions tests have confirmed unsafe levels of smoke. Making the chimneys taller would be expensive and present an eyesore that might run afoul of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, the residents said.
One resident, Mitch Miller, the host of the 1960s television program “Sing Along with Mitch,” had little sympathy for the log-lighting set. “If people want fireplaces, let them go live in the country,” said Mr. Miller, who is 95.
Many residents appear to be choosing to let the most passionate ones fight this battle, and saving their energy for other struggles. Mr. Brickman, a co-writer of the movie “Annie Hall” and of the Broadway hit “Jersey Boys,” worked the dispute for comedy. After trying out a few fireplace jokes during a telephone interview, the longtime San Remo resident tinkered with his material and called back. “People who continue to roast meat in their fireplaces,” he said, “should be required to move to the East Side,” adding, “Other than that I have no position.”
The San Remo had its annual shareholders meeting May 8. The fireplace issue was raised, but no resolutions were passed, said building residents who attended.
“People were fighting about other things — pets, this and that,” one longtime resident said.
With the fireplace season over, the dispute seems to have quieted, at least until next winter.
“I’m putting all my effort into trying to make sure the Democrats widen our lead in the Congress and win back the White House,” said Andrew Tobias, a financial writer and San Remo resident who is also treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. “So the fireplace controversy is not high on my list.” He paused. “But if I had a fireplace, it would be high on my list.”
Latest News: Bono, the lead singer of U2 is smoked out!
Among the Rich, a New Dispute Over Air Rights - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/nyregion/16bono.html?th&emc=th
Among the Rich, a New Dispute Over Air Rights
By ALLEN SALKIN
Published: May 16, 2007
It’s not the war against third world debt, but still.
Skip to next paragraph
Evan Agostini/Getty Images
Bono, the lead singer of U2, the pop music group, lives in a penthouse at the San Remo.
The New York Times
Bono, the lead singer of U2 and a globetrotting activist for social causes, has become involved in a battle that may be as intractable as loan burdens in the developing world — a Manhattan co-op dispute.
One of his adversaries is a fellow rocker, Billy Squier, best known for 1980s songs like “The Stroke.” The two live in the San Remo, a storied building with twin towers that loom over Central Park West. (It is the same building that rejected Madonna in 1985 when she sought to buy an apartment.)
The dispute is over whether hazardous smoke from fireplaces, including Mr. Squier’s, is drifting from chimneys into the penthouse duplex where Bono lives with his wife and four children. About a year ago the co-op board banned the use of fireplaces throughout the building, angering fireplace owners, who love a pine-scented blaze in the city as well as their enhanced property values.
As with other co-op disputes, exact details are hard to pin down because these buildings are essentially private clubs run by a board of elected tenants, and anyone who airs grievances in public risks being ostracized in his own hallway, sometimes for generations. The San Remo, at West 74th Street, is home to many prominent New Yorkers, including Steve Martin, Steven Spielberg, the producers Scott Rudin and James L. Nederlander, and the writers Andrew Tobias and Marshall Brickman.
Interviews with more than a dozen residents and with associates of Bono and Mr. Squier present a consistent picture of events in a place where even the most privileged property owners cannot escape the concerns of neighbors.
The dispute started, residents say, when Bono bought his penthouse in the building’s north tower in April 2003 from Steve Jobs, a founder of Apple Computer, for around the $14.5 million asking price. Mr. Jobs had spent millions on renovations, including adding a residential floor, said the listing broker, Roger Erickson, now a senior managing director at Sotheby’s International Realty. Mr. Jobs never spent a night in the apartment, Mr. Erickson said.
At some point after moving in, Bono (who was born Paul Hewson) and his wife, Ali Hewson, who also own homes in Dublin and the south of France, noticed smoke drifting toward their apartment from chimneys in the roof, according to residents in the building familiar with the situation.
The Hewsons approached the co-op board about the smoke and related chimney problems. “Bono was so nice,” said Leni May, whose husband, Peter May, is a member of the board. “He said, ‘Listen, whatever I can do to get these things working, but it’s emptying into my apartment and I can’t have smoke like that.’ ” One of the Hewsons’ children has asthma, he told the board, Ms. May said. The couple have two daughters, 18 and 15, and two sons, 7 and 5.
Other residents had complained about smoke entering their apartments through faulty flues in the 1930 building. The board banned the use of fireplaces while the problems were studied.
Soon, hackles went up, notably those of Mr. Squier, whose apartment on the third floor includes a fireplace, and Mark Gordon, another resident with a fireplace.
Only about 40 of the building’s roughly 135 apartments have fireplaces, said Phyliss Koch, a real estate broker who has lived in the San Remo for 29 years and has been the listing agent in many sales there. Renovations over the years may have caused chimney ventilation problems, she added. Mr. Gordon sent at least one flier through the building seeking to raise awareness about the fireplace issue, residents said.
The fireplace owners’ position was that the Hewsons had complained when they saw the smoke coming toward their penthouse, not because they had evidence that harmful pollution was entering their living quarters, said a longtime friend and tour manager of Mr. Squier’s.
“It was just assumed that because they could see the exhaust, that would present a problem to their children,” the tour manager said, adding that Mr. Squier, whose last hit was “Rock Me Tonight” in 1984, had discussed the issue in detail with him. (Mr. Squier did not respond to messages left with an assistant seeking comment.)
Mr. Gordon declined to comment, beyond saying: “I don’t want to see this in the press in any way whatsoever. It could only be more damaging to the situation. The situation is a delicate and private one.”
The fireplace complaint is not a case of a prima donna pop star making unreasonable demands, said a representative from Principle Management, the company that manages Bono’s band, U2.
“This is not a Bono issue,” the representative said. “It’s a building issue. It’s about health and safety regulations.” Neither Bono, who was in Germany this week to press the Group of 8 nations for more African aid, nor his wife would comment, the representative said.
Meanwhile, the news from experts brought in by the San Remo to examine the fireplaces has not been good. “Apparently, the mistakes were made before any of us moved into the San Remo,” said Ms. May, who is chairwoman of the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. “It’s to the point where we’re not to code and we can’t fix it. It’s not fixable.”
Other residents said the problem is that the building chimneys end at a height that is hazardously close to the Hewsons’ tower duplex, and that emissions tests have confirmed unsafe levels of smoke. Making the chimneys taller would be expensive and present an eyesore that might run afoul of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, the residents said.
One resident, Mitch Miller, the host of the 1960s television program “Sing Along with Mitch,” had little sympathy for the log-lighting set. “If people want fireplaces, let them go live in the country,” said Mr. Miller, who is 95.
Many residents appear to be choosing to let the most passionate ones fight this battle, and saving their energy for other struggles. Mr. Brickman, a co-writer of the movie “Annie Hall” and of the Broadway hit “Jersey Boys,” worked the dispute for comedy. After trying out a few fireplace jokes during a telephone interview, the longtime San Remo resident tinkered with his material and called back. “People who continue to roast meat in their fireplaces,” he said, “should be required to move to the East Side,” adding, “Other than that I have no position.”
The San Remo had its annual shareholders meeting May 8. The fireplace issue was raised, but no resolutions were passed, said building residents who attended.
“People were fighting about other things — pets, this and that,” one longtime resident said.
With the fireplace season over, the dispute seems to have quieted, at least until next winter.
“I’m putting all my effort into trying to make sure the Democrats widen our lead in the Congress and win back the White House,” said Andrew Tobias, a financial writer and San Remo resident who is also treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. “So the fireplace controversy is not high on my list.” He paused. “But if I had a fireplace, it would be high on my list.”
Town bans outside fireplaces, firepits, wood-burning boilers
Congrats!!!!! Let's do this nationwide!
LOCKPORT
The Buffalo News : City & Region
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Council bans fire pits, wood-burning boilers
LOCKPORT — So far as officials know, no one in the city has an outdoor wood-burning boiler, but that didn’t stop the Common Council from making them illegal.
Aldermen voted unanimously Tuesday to amend the city code to ban such boilers, which produce heat and hot water for homes.
The Council also outlawed outdoor use of fire pits, fireplaces or similar devices.
“Anything that produces smoke, if it doesn’t have a chimney, according to the Niagara County sanitary code and the state fire code, it’s illegal,” Fire Chief Thomas J. Passuite said. “You can’t do it.”
Boilers often have short stacks, which technically are not chimneys.
“We’re not trying to be bad guys,” said Alderman Patrick W. Schrader, D-4th Ward. “We’re just trying to keep people who have problems with smoke from being ill.”
The boilers are most popular in rural communities. Passuite presented a list of municipalities that have banned or regulated them. Most, including the city of Watertown, are in Northern New York.
LOCKPORT
The Buffalo News : City & Region
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Council bans fire pits, wood-burning boilers
LOCKPORT — So far as officials know, no one in the city has an outdoor wood-burning boiler, but that didn’t stop the Common Council from making them illegal.
Aldermen voted unanimously Tuesday to amend the city code to ban such boilers, which produce heat and hot water for homes.
The Council also outlawed outdoor use of fire pits, fireplaces or similar devices.
“Anything that produces smoke, if it doesn’t have a chimney, according to the Niagara County sanitary code and the state fire code, it’s illegal,” Fire Chief Thomas J. Passuite said. “You can’t do it.”
Boilers often have short stacks, which technically are not chimneys.
“We’re not trying to be bad guys,” said Alderman Patrick W. Schrader, D-4th Ward. “We’re just trying to keep people who have problems with smoke from being ill.”
The boilers are most popular in rural communities. Passuite presented a list of municipalities that have banned or regulated them. Most, including the city of Watertown, are in Northern New York.
Welcome To Breathe Healthy Air
Monday, July 16, 2007
Welcome!!
Our health, air, and quality of life is so precious to all of us and our families, We created the http://breathehealthyair.blogspot.com site. Why? Even though there are many excellent and informative web sites-some private, some governmental, some organizational-promoting clean air, we wanted to have one that is more personal and a place where we can share advice and suggestions. A place where we can obtain support and information to become pro-active, not reactive, or passive. A place where we can help each other in our endeavor and our quest for clean air to breathe in our daily life. We are stronger united rather than as individuals. Passing along real-life stories of suffering and horror from people who live near individuals that do not practice the “good neighbor” policy as it relates to the air we all need to breathe everyday.
Posting success stories about communities and cities across the U.S. that have finally realized that major air pollution is being needlessly and unnecessarily created from the poisonous and noxious emissions of outside (and inside) fireplaces/firepits, chimeneas, outside wood boilers (OWB), burn barrels, and wood burning stoves.
This site is dedicated to the prohibiting of outside (and the voluntary conversion of inside wood burning fireplaces to natural gas or electric with a governmental cash grant) wood-burning fireplace/firepits, and also chimeneas, outside wood boilers (OWB), and burn barrels.
A few quick comments/facts relating to the emissions from wood-burning…..
1. Unnecessary, unneeded pollution and unsuitable in residential/populated areas
2. Statewide bans should be adopted
3. Activities/actions of people need to be regulated if harmful/deadly to others.
- Guns---go to gun range
- Bow and arrow---go to archery range or desolated area
- Drive car 100 mph---go to race track
4. Wood emissions are very harmful and deadly. Particulates enter lungs and stay there. Causes cancer, respiratory problems, aggravates the membranes, and coughing. Dangerous to healthy people and extremely dangerous to those with existing illnesses.
5. Major health and air pollution problem
6. Health costs associated with illnesses caused by noxious, poisonous emissions
7. Legal—“battery” on persons who have to involuntarily breathe these wood emissions
8. Quality of life is greatly lessened and affected by these wood emissions
9. Affects/decreases property values
10. Breathing is not an option.
11. These toxic emissions drift along the ground and seep into the nearby houses through the vents, windows, doors, and involuntarily enter the lungs of the occupants.
12. Ozone and air quality is affected by the emissions of wood-burning fireplaces/fire pits. This affects the “quality of life and a major life activity” known as….breathing. The American with Disabilities Act (1990) is most likely being violated by these emissions.
13. Common Law supports the “right to breathe fresh, unadulterated air”
14. The “Good Neighbor Policy” is not being followed or complied with when one uses a wood-burning fireplace/fire pit.
15. Towns and states should not be an “enabler” of this air pollution and public health violation by not adopting a ban on outside wood-burning fireplaces/fire pits.
We look forward to your comments, suggestions, related links, personal stories, and any research you wish to share.
E-mail address is....breathe.healthy.air@gmail.com
Welcome to Breathe Healthy Air!
Our health, air, and quality of life is so precious to all of us and our families, We created the http://breathehealthyair.blogspot.com site. Why? Even though there are many excellent and informative web sites-some private, some governmental, some organizational-promoting clean air, we wanted to have one that is more personal and a place where we can share advice and suggestions. A place where we can obtain support and information to become pro-active, not reactive, or passive. A place where we can help each other in our endeavor and our quest for clean air to breathe in our daily life. We are stronger united rather than as individuals. Passing along real-life stories of suffering and horror from people who live near individuals that do not practice the “good neighbor” policy as it relates to the air we all need to breathe everyday.
Posting success stories about communities and cities across the U.S. that have finally realized that major air pollution is being needlessly and unnecessarily created from the poisonous and noxious emissions of outside (and inside) fireplaces/firepits, chimeneas, outside wood boilers (OWB), burn barrels, and wood burning stoves.
This site is dedicated to the prohibiting of outside (and the voluntary conversion of inside wood burning fireplaces to natural gas or electric with a governmental cash grant) wood-burning fireplace/firepits, and also chimeneas, outside wood boilers (OWB), and burn barrels.
A few quick comments/facts relating to the emissions from wood-burning…..
1. Unnecessary, unneeded pollution and unsuitable in residential/populated areas
2. Statewide bans should be adopted
3. Activities/actions of people need to be regulated if harmful/deadly to others.
- Guns---go to gun range
- Bow and arrow---go to archery range or desolated area
- Drive car 100 mph---go to race track
4. Wood emissions are very harmful and deadly. Particulates enter lungs and stay there. Causes cancer, respiratory problems, aggravates the membranes, and coughing. Dangerous to healthy people and extremely dangerous to those with existing illnesses.
5. Major health and air pollution problem
6. Health costs associated with illnesses caused by noxious, poisonous emissions
7. Legal—“battery” on persons who have to involuntarily breathe these wood emissions
8. Quality of life is greatly lessened and affected by these wood emissions
9. Affects/decreases property values
10. Breathing is not an option.
11. These toxic emissions drift along the ground and seep into the nearby houses through the vents, windows, doors, and involuntarily enter the lungs of the occupants.
12. Ozone and air quality is affected by the emissions of wood-burning fireplaces/fire pits. This affects the “quality of life and a major life activity” known as….breathing. The American with Disabilities Act (1990) is most likely being violated by these emissions.
13. Common Law supports the “right to breathe fresh, unadulterated air”
14. The “Good Neighbor Policy” is not being followed or complied with when one uses a wood-burning fireplace/fire pit.
15. Towns and states should not be an “enabler” of this air pollution and public health violation by not adopting a ban on outside wood-burning fireplaces/fire pits.
We look forward to your comments, suggestions, related links, personal stories, and any research you wish to share.
E-mail address is....breathe.healthy.air@gmail.com
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