Los Angeles Times
OPINION-Letter to the Editor
June 5, 2007
I wholeheartedly agree with doing away with wood-burning fireplaces. On my lunch hour last week, I strolled to the Ralph's grocery store across the street and there, at the front door, was a colossal stack of firewood (next to a pyramid of charcoal briquettes) to be purchased for burning. With L.A. assuming its place, once again, as the American city with the worst air quality, banning wood-burning and charcoal-burning grills and fireplaces is appropriate. They are dirty and sooty and nothing more than habit or what we have become accustomed to. In all honesty, who needs them?
ELLEN HAGEMAN
Los Angeles
CITIES OFFER CASH TO GO GREEN!
Cities offer green to go green
Efforts to save energy, environment mean homeowners walk away with cash
December 28, 2007
BY BRIAN SKOLOFF
PARKLAND, Fla. -- Free hybrid-car parking. Cash rebates for installing solar panels. Money to tear up desert lawns and replace them with drought-resistant landscaping.
Frustrated by what they see as insufficient action by state and federal government, municipalities around the country are offering financial incentives to get people to go green.
"A lot of localities recognize they're going to get a lot more done using carrots and incentives rather than regulatory means," said Jason Hartke of the U.S. Green Building Council.
In Parkland, where the motto is ''Environmentally Proud,'' the city plans next year to begin dispensing cash rebates to its 25,000 residents for being more environmentally friendly. "We will literally issue them a check,'' said Vice Mayor Jared Moskowitz. ''We're sick of waiting for the federal government to do something, so we've got to do what we can.''
Residents who install low-flow toilets or shower heads will get $150. Replacing an old air conditioner with a more energy-efficient one brings $100. Buying a hybrid car? An additional $200 cash back. And the list goes on.
Based on an estimate of 1,000 residents participating in the rebate program during the first year, the city predicts it will cost up to $100,000. "Could this bankrupt the city if the program grows by leaps and bounds?'' Moskowitz asked. ''I can only wish that so many residents want to go green that that becomes an issue.''
Many states already offer similar rebates and incentives through tax breaks, loans and perks such as allowing hybrid-car drivers to use car pool lanes. Utilities have long provided incentives to buy energy-efficient appliances. The federal government, too, offers tax incentives for energy-saving products.
But cities like these are taking it to the next level:
• • San Francisco will offer homeowners rebates of up to $5,000 for installing solar panels if they use a local contractor. The city will also pay residents $150 to replace old appliances.
• • Baltimore offers at least $2,000 toward closing costs for people who buy new homes close to where they work. ''Just living near your job and taking transit or walking to meet your daily needs provides basically the same environmental benefit as buying a hybrid car,'' said Amanda Eaken of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
• • Residents of Albuquerque, N.M., get fast-track building permits if they agree to make their homes more energy-efficient.
• • In Arizona, many cities pay residents to replace grass with artificial turf or plants that use less water. Scottsdale, outside Phoenix, will pay up to $1,500.
AP
Editor's note....
My Suggestion To Reduce Wood Smoke Emissions---
Local towns and state governments should adopt a cash grant program for those who voluntarily covert their inside wood-burning fireplace to gas or electric.
Efforts to save energy, environment mean homeowners walk away with cash
December 28, 2007
BY BRIAN SKOLOFF
PARKLAND, Fla. -- Free hybrid-car parking. Cash rebates for installing solar panels. Money to tear up desert lawns and replace them with drought-resistant landscaping.
Frustrated by what they see as insufficient action by state and federal government, municipalities around the country are offering financial incentives to get people to go green.
"A lot of localities recognize they're going to get a lot more done using carrots and incentives rather than regulatory means," said Jason Hartke of the U.S. Green Building Council.
In Parkland, where the motto is ''Environmentally Proud,'' the city plans next year to begin dispensing cash rebates to its 25,000 residents for being more environmentally friendly. "We will literally issue them a check,'' said Vice Mayor Jared Moskowitz. ''We're sick of waiting for the federal government to do something, so we've got to do what we can.''
Residents who install low-flow toilets or shower heads will get $150. Replacing an old air conditioner with a more energy-efficient one brings $100. Buying a hybrid car? An additional $200 cash back. And the list goes on.
Based on an estimate of 1,000 residents participating in the rebate program during the first year, the city predicts it will cost up to $100,000. "Could this bankrupt the city if the program grows by leaps and bounds?'' Moskowitz asked. ''I can only wish that so many residents want to go green that that becomes an issue.''
Many states already offer similar rebates and incentives through tax breaks, loans and perks such as allowing hybrid-car drivers to use car pool lanes. Utilities have long provided incentives to buy energy-efficient appliances. The federal government, too, offers tax incentives for energy-saving products.
But cities like these are taking it to the next level:
• • San Francisco will offer homeowners rebates of up to $5,000 for installing solar panels if they use a local contractor. The city will also pay residents $150 to replace old appliances.
• • Baltimore offers at least $2,000 toward closing costs for people who buy new homes close to where they work. ''Just living near your job and taking transit or walking to meet your daily needs provides basically the same environmental benefit as buying a hybrid car,'' said Amanda Eaken of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
• • Residents of Albuquerque, N.M., get fast-track building permits if they agree to make their homes more energy-efficient.
• • In Arizona, many cities pay residents to replace grass with artificial turf or plants that use less water. Scottsdale, outside Phoenix, will pay up to $1,500.
AP
Editor's note....
My Suggestion To Reduce Wood Smoke Emissions---
Local towns and state governments should adopt a cash grant program for those who voluntarily covert their inside wood-burning fireplace to gas or electric.
Fighting for Our Clean Air Rights against Outdoor Wood Boilers in Illinois
Thursday, December 20, 2007
"Fighting for Our Clean Air Rights against Outdoor Wood Boilers in Illinois "
http://www.myspace.com/freedomofair
Note...The above personal myspace web page site is created by a Supporter of Breathe Healthy Air.
Our Mission:
"My wife and I developed this page to show the horror of how lives can change because of the selfish action of a neighbor. Having clean air to breathe is a fundamental common law right. We have been forced to live with and breathe smoke on a continual basis because of an Outdoor Wood Boiler located directly across from our house. We are not just fighting for our own rights, but the rights of everyone else who wishes to breathe clean air. We hope the information on this page will benefit anyone who has a similar situation, and will find our experiences resourceful in the continuing battle for clean air."
Who I'd like to meet:
"We want to meet anyone who wants to constructively contribute to our mission of getting back what was once free, clean air. We have already invested thousands of dollars in this fight, thousands of dollars we probably will never see again. If we can successfully maintain our ground and fight for what is right, not only will we personally benefit, but people in the community and with similar situations will benefit as well."
Editor's note----Read about the horrors of wood smoke emission and actually see wood smoke emission videos on this web site.... http://www.myspace.com/freedomofair
http://www.myspace.com/freedomofair
Note...The above personal myspace web page site is created by a Supporter of Breathe Healthy Air.
Our Mission:
"My wife and I developed this page to show the horror of how lives can change because of the selfish action of a neighbor. Having clean air to breathe is a fundamental common law right. We have been forced to live with and breathe smoke on a continual basis because of an Outdoor Wood Boiler located directly across from our house. We are not just fighting for our own rights, but the rights of everyone else who wishes to breathe clean air. We hope the information on this page will benefit anyone who has a similar situation, and will find our experiences resourceful in the continuing battle for clean air."
Who I'd like to meet:
"We want to meet anyone who wants to constructively contribute to our mission of getting back what was once free, clean air. We have already invested thousands of dollars in this fight, thousands of dollars we probably will never see again. If we can successfully maintain our ground and fight for what is right, not only will we personally benefit, but people in the community and with similar situations will benefit as well."
Editor's note----Read about the horrors of wood smoke emission and actually see wood smoke emission videos on this web site.... http://www.myspace.com/freedomofair
SEEKING HELP FROM WOOD SMOKE EMISSIONS
Monday, December 17, 2007
This is a copy of e-mail that was sent to Mary seeking help--
Mary J. Rozenberg
President
Clean Air Revival, Inc.
PO Box 1045
Point Arena, CA 95468
Mary.Rozenberg@gmail.com
website: http://burningissues.org
(707) 882-3601
Fax (707) 882-3602
December 4, 2007
Hi, Mary. We are in the Cincinnati Ohio area. Loveland,Ohio is our mailing address. We are at XXXXXXX in Loveland Ohio. 45140. This is actually Symmes Township right at the corner of Hamilton, Warren and Claremont Counties.
Our problems persist. So far, no one is willing to help us at the local or state level. We are now trying to get a building inspection on the house next door which continues to pour chimney smoke over us. The fire department did stop the neighbor's outside burning. But as I said, their chimney 15 feet from us and above us produces smoke that gets in at ever opening of our house. All windows. Even the bathroom vents. We have taped up everything, but that only helps some. And I continue to have rashes and my wife continues to have tail bone pain.
Thanks,
J-K
Ø Our house and our immediate neighbors’ house set among houses that produce a lot of wood smoke. As a result, J our immediate neighbor had to be on steroids all summer long. (One neighbor has since stopped burning, and we are deeply grateful).
Ø In J's case, we know it’s the wood smoke, because when there’s no smoke, the problems (itchy rashes) begin healing, and the moment smoke reappears, the problems come back.
Ø Before we realized what was causing the horrible rashes all over J's body, (resulting in two trips to urgent care and one to the emergency room), we tried everything: pulling out the flowers we had planted, pulling out any poison ivy we could find, changing laundry detergents, completely washing down the inside of our house, etc. Only when we pinpointed the cause, did we start finding occasional relief.
Ø K’s reaction to the wood smoke is an aggravation of her auto-immune condition, resulting in spinal arthritis. Now, instead of making at least two trips “around the block” every day, she has to do extensive exercises just to be able to walk. Again, no smoke, problem goes away; smoke, problem comes back.
Ø When the new development at the end of XXXX Drive was just getting started, a massive pile—the size of a large house—of wood chips was left for about a year. The pile smoldered during that time as it was degrading into mulch. During that time, a father in his 40’s—living within 100 feet of that pile—suddenly came down with cancer and was dead within 6 weeks.
Ø Down the street from that family, awhile later, a baby died of SIDS. The baby was at a day care center. The baby’s home is right behind us and therefore right in the path of smoke for the two house causing us problems.
Ø Another neighbor near the compost pile was taken to the hospital by ambulance on several occasions from flare-ups of Chron’s Disease. A hundred yards in another direct from the smoldering wood pile a man had quadruple bypass heart surgery (a long-time) smoker.
Ø Around the same time, two other baby boys in nearby households were born prematurely and with low birth weight. Both of them have acute multiple allergies.
Ø One of the two families producing wood smoke on both sides of us has a father in his early forties who suffered kidney failure recently and has heart trouble. His wife, also in her late thirties or early forties, has severe arthritis. A man two houses up from us and on the other side of one of the two families regularly producing wood smoke has such extreme allergies that he never opens his windows.
Ø A friend of ours two hundred yards north of us in the woods where wood smoke is continually being produced almost died after getting a flu shot and now has lupus and skin rashes. Her teenage son is Autistic.
We hope you can do something to help us.
Thanks
J&K
Loveland, Ohio
Mary J. Rozenberg
President
Clean Air Revival, Inc.
PO Box 1045
Point Arena, CA 95468
Mary.Rozenberg@gmail.com
website: http://burningissues.org
(707) 882-3601
Fax (707) 882-3602
December 4, 2007
Hi, Mary. We are in the Cincinnati Ohio area. Loveland,Ohio is our mailing address. We are at XXXXXXX in Loveland Ohio. 45140. This is actually Symmes Township right at the corner of Hamilton, Warren and Claremont Counties.
Our problems persist. So far, no one is willing to help us at the local or state level. We are now trying to get a building inspection on the house next door which continues to pour chimney smoke over us. The fire department did stop the neighbor's outside burning. But as I said, their chimney 15 feet from us and above us produces smoke that gets in at ever opening of our house. All windows. Even the bathroom vents. We have taped up everything, but that only helps some. And I continue to have rashes and my wife continues to have tail bone pain.
Thanks,
J-K
Ø Our house and our immediate neighbors’ house set among houses that produce a lot of wood smoke. As a result, J our immediate neighbor had to be on steroids all summer long. (One neighbor has since stopped burning, and we are deeply grateful).
Ø In J's case, we know it’s the wood smoke, because when there’s no smoke, the problems (itchy rashes) begin healing, and the moment smoke reappears, the problems come back.
Ø Before we realized what was causing the horrible rashes all over J's body, (resulting in two trips to urgent care and one to the emergency room), we tried everything: pulling out the flowers we had planted, pulling out any poison ivy we could find, changing laundry detergents, completely washing down the inside of our house, etc. Only when we pinpointed the cause, did we start finding occasional relief.
Ø K’s reaction to the wood smoke is an aggravation of her auto-immune condition, resulting in spinal arthritis. Now, instead of making at least two trips “around the block” every day, she has to do extensive exercises just to be able to walk. Again, no smoke, problem goes away; smoke, problem comes back.
Ø When the new development at the end of XXXX Drive was just getting started, a massive pile—the size of a large house—of wood chips was left for about a year. The pile smoldered during that time as it was degrading into mulch. During that time, a father in his 40’s—living within 100 feet of that pile—suddenly came down with cancer and was dead within 6 weeks.
Ø Down the street from that family, awhile later, a baby died of SIDS. The baby was at a day care center. The baby’s home is right behind us and therefore right in the path of smoke for the two house causing us problems.
Ø Another neighbor near the compost pile was taken to the hospital by ambulance on several occasions from flare-ups of Chron’s Disease. A hundred yards in another direct from the smoldering wood pile a man had quadruple bypass heart surgery (a long-time) smoker.
Ø Around the same time, two other baby boys in nearby households were born prematurely and with low birth weight. Both of them have acute multiple allergies.
Ø One of the two families producing wood smoke on both sides of us has a father in his early forties who suffered kidney failure recently and has heart trouble. His wife, also in her late thirties or early forties, has severe arthritis. A man two houses up from us and on the other side of one of the two families regularly producing wood smoke has such extreme allergies that he never opens his windows.
Ø A friend of ours two hundred yards north of us in the woods where wood smoke is continually being produced almost died after getting a flu shot and now has lupus and skin rashes. Her teenage son is Autistic.
We hope you can do something to help us.
Thanks
J&K
Loveland, Ohio
ALL AFFECTED BY WOOD SMOKE
I read with interest the recent letters page devoted to the topic of fires in fireplaces. Most surprising to me was the notion by some that regulating such a thing somehow usurps their right to do what they want in the privacy of their own home.
Since when is it acceptable to threaten the health of others just because the offending act takes place in the comfort and privacy of one's own home?
Sure, hearth fires are nice. But so is being able to breathe clean air.
Sure, burning hundreds of pounds of wood each winter can lower one's heating bill. But why should the rest of society have to breathe filthy, stinky, cancer-causing air so one household can lower its bill?
Just like noise from obnoxious, barking dogs, very loud music at 3 a.m., or a bullet from a firearm discharged randomly into the sky, toxic soot becomes society's business the instant it leaves the privacy of someone's property and enters the privacy of someone else's property.
I treasure my rights and privileges as an American, but I also understand that I should not gratuitously endanger others for the sake of my own pleasure or economic benefit.
Anyone who closes the flue, seals off the chimney, closes their doors and windows, shuts off all vent fans, and still chooses to have a fire should have the right to do so.
Because only then is the cozy hearth fire's smoke restricted to the privacy and enjoyment of the home, where it belongs.
Since when is it acceptable to threaten the health of others just because the offending act takes place in the comfort and privacy of one's own home?
Sure, hearth fires are nice. But so is being able to breathe clean air.
Sure, burning hundreds of pounds of wood each winter can lower one's heating bill. But why should the rest of society have to breathe filthy, stinky, cancer-causing air so one household can lower its bill?
Just like noise from obnoxious, barking dogs, very loud music at 3 a.m., or a bullet from a firearm discharged randomly into the sky, toxic soot becomes society's business the instant it leaves the privacy of someone's property and enters the privacy of someone else's property.
I treasure my rights and privileges as an American, but I also understand that I should not gratuitously endanger others for the sake of my own pleasure or economic benefit.
Anyone who closes the flue, seals off the chimney, closes their doors and windows, shuts off all vent fans, and still chooses to have a fire should have the right to do so.
Because only then is the cozy hearth fire's smoke restricted to the privacy and enjoyment of the home, where it belongs.
But The Fire Is Not Delightful-Letter to the Editor
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Opinion--Article
StarTribune Newspaper
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Published December 5, 2007
Julie Mellum: But the fire is not delightful
We're snuffing secondhand tobacco smoke, but we continue to romanticize recreational wood burning -- a hazard all its own.
One big source of air pollution -- as deadly as vehicle exhaust, and with many of the same toxicants as cigarette smoke -- is wood smoke.
The Star Tribune's recent feature on the joys of back-yard wood burning ("All fired up," Oct. 24) was so well-written and enticing that it no doubt caused sales of wood-burning equipment to skyrocket. Yet it did not address the perils of wood smoke. Wood smoke is more than a nuisance -- it is a health hazard.
Minnesota's antismoking ordinance allows people to go to bars and restaurants and avoid smoke, because tobacco smoke is a proven killer. Yet because we still allow recreational wood burning in the city, where homes are close together on small lots, it has become a serious livability problem. All citizens are forced to breathe outdoor air that smells of smoke in many neighborhoods, night and day, in all seasons.
There is so much smoke, either faint or heavy, that many hardly notice it anymore. But wood smoke is there, heavy in most neighborhoods at night or around our many wood-fired restaurants, if you stop to notice.
How did this happen in a city such as Minneapolis, which has long been focused on improving air quality for the health of its citizens?
Wood smoke comprises fine particulates, many of which are carcinogenic, such as benzene, toluene, formaldehyde and polyaromatic hydrocarbons. It is far more concentrated than cigarette smoke and travels much farther, spreading soot and fine particulates directly into our air and our lungs. It also invades our water and food supply with persistent organic compounds that do not break down but remain for years, causing a host of health problems in frogs, bluegills and mammals -- including humans.
Everyone is at risk from wood-smoke exposure. But children of all ages, the elderly, and anyone with asthma, allergies, or heart disease are in the highest-risk categories.
The American Lung Association states that a majority of asthmatics cite smoke of all kinds as a trigger for asthma attacks. Asthma is epidemic in children, and it is life-threatening. Wood smoke is even implicated in sudden infant death syndrome. Are we OK with this? Aren't these facts reason enough to stop recreational wood burning?
Why, then, do people continue to burn? First, because they don't know how harmful it is. Second, because it is strongly promoted by the hearth and home industry. And third, because burning wood is an addiction.
I cannot be outside at all when wood smoke is in the air, because I have a "reactive airways" condition affected by it. I ache for clean air outdoors in a world where nature often is our only respite. Bad air is forcing many others I know inside when, as city taxpayers, we have a right to be outside breathing clean air.
We must urge our City Council members to ban recreational wood burning -- especially at a time when cities are looking for ways to reduce pollution to save lives and receive federal funding by being in compliance with air-quality standards. Many feel that our air-quality standards are not high enough. If air quality were measured near where people actually breathe it, when neighbors are burning, the results would be off the charts.
I look to the Star Tribune and to all citizens to start building public awareness of the hazards of wood smoke.
Julie Mellum is a Realtor and president of Take Back the Air, a Minneapolis group that works to address pollution at the neighborhood level.
StarTribune Newspaper
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Published December 5, 2007
Julie Mellum: But the fire is not delightful
We're snuffing secondhand tobacco smoke, but we continue to romanticize recreational wood burning -- a hazard all its own.
One big source of air pollution -- as deadly as vehicle exhaust, and with many of the same toxicants as cigarette smoke -- is wood smoke.
The Star Tribune's recent feature on the joys of back-yard wood burning ("All fired up," Oct. 24) was so well-written and enticing that it no doubt caused sales of wood-burning equipment to skyrocket. Yet it did not address the perils of wood smoke. Wood smoke is more than a nuisance -- it is a health hazard.
Minnesota's antismoking ordinance allows people to go to bars and restaurants and avoid smoke, because tobacco smoke is a proven killer. Yet because we still allow recreational wood burning in the city, where homes are close together on small lots, it has become a serious livability problem. All citizens are forced to breathe outdoor air that smells of smoke in many neighborhoods, night and day, in all seasons.
There is so much smoke, either faint or heavy, that many hardly notice it anymore. But wood smoke is there, heavy in most neighborhoods at night or around our many wood-fired restaurants, if you stop to notice.
How did this happen in a city such as Minneapolis, which has long been focused on improving air quality for the health of its citizens?
Wood smoke comprises fine particulates, many of which are carcinogenic, such as benzene, toluene, formaldehyde and polyaromatic hydrocarbons. It is far more concentrated than cigarette smoke and travels much farther, spreading soot and fine particulates directly into our air and our lungs. It also invades our water and food supply with persistent organic compounds that do not break down but remain for years, causing a host of health problems in frogs, bluegills and mammals -- including humans.
Everyone is at risk from wood-smoke exposure. But children of all ages, the elderly, and anyone with asthma, allergies, or heart disease are in the highest-risk categories.
The American Lung Association states that a majority of asthmatics cite smoke of all kinds as a trigger for asthma attacks. Asthma is epidemic in children, and it is life-threatening. Wood smoke is even implicated in sudden infant death syndrome. Are we OK with this? Aren't these facts reason enough to stop recreational wood burning?
Why, then, do people continue to burn? First, because they don't know how harmful it is. Second, because it is strongly promoted by the hearth and home industry. And third, because burning wood is an addiction.
I cannot be outside at all when wood smoke is in the air, because I have a "reactive airways" condition affected by it. I ache for clean air outdoors in a world where nature often is our only respite. Bad air is forcing many others I know inside when, as city taxpayers, we have a right to be outside breathing clean air.
We must urge our City Council members to ban recreational wood burning -- especially at a time when cities are looking for ways to reduce pollution to save lives and receive federal funding by being in compliance with air-quality standards. Many feel that our air-quality standards are not high enough. If air quality were measured near where people actually breathe it, when neighbors are burning, the results would be off the charts.
I look to the Star Tribune and to all citizens to start building public awareness of the hazards of wood smoke.
Julie Mellum is a Realtor and president of Take Back the Air, a Minneapolis group that works to address pollution at the neighborhood level.
Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Must Ban Wood Smoke
Letter to the Editor
Daily Herald Newspaper
Paddock Publications
Published December 5, 2007
Elk Grove Village Must Ban Wood Smoke
Soaring asthma and autism rates in our cities correspond with skyrocketing fine particulate pollution, caused mostly by vehicle exhaust and wood smoke.
When fine particulate pollution goes up, people die-from asthma attacks, heart attacks and even sudden infant death syndrome.
Burning for fun is wreaking havoc and infiltrating our lungs, air, water and crops with deadly pollutants that harm both man and the planet. Are we OK with this?
As the Midwestern director for Clean Air Revival, an international organization dedicated to providing scientific information on the hazards of wood smoke, I have been involved with the Elk Grove Village community in fighting wood smoke. I spoke in favor of reinstating the one-time progressive ban on outdoor recreational burning at its town hall meeting in October.
While Mayor Craig Johnson is concerned with stopping smoking by educational means, equally needed is a major educational campaign on the harms of wood smoke!
Just as the Illinois Smoking Ban will help people quit smoking and protect others from secondhand smoke, so would a wood-burning ban help people stop polluting for fun, and protect others from the fine particulate fallout.
We must ban wood burning now.
Julie Mellum
Midwestern Director
Clean Air Revival
Minneapolis
Note…Elk Grove Village, Illinois, is on the western border of O’Hare Airport, and is a northwest suburb of Chicago.
Comment...All of us need to continually write letters to the newspapers and our elected officials to ban wood burning.
Daily Herald Newspaper
Paddock Publications
Published December 5, 2007
Elk Grove Village Must Ban Wood Smoke
Soaring asthma and autism rates in our cities correspond with skyrocketing fine particulate pollution, caused mostly by vehicle exhaust and wood smoke.
When fine particulate pollution goes up, people die-from asthma attacks, heart attacks and even sudden infant death syndrome.
Burning for fun is wreaking havoc and infiltrating our lungs, air, water and crops with deadly pollutants that harm both man and the planet. Are we OK with this?
As the Midwestern director for Clean Air Revival, an international organization dedicated to providing scientific information on the hazards of wood smoke, I have been involved with the Elk Grove Village community in fighting wood smoke. I spoke in favor of reinstating the one-time progressive ban on outdoor recreational burning at its town hall meeting in October.
While Mayor Craig Johnson is concerned with stopping smoking by educational means, equally needed is a major educational campaign on the harms of wood smoke!
Just as the Illinois Smoking Ban will help people quit smoking and protect others from secondhand smoke, so would a wood-burning ban help people stop polluting for fun, and protect others from the fine particulate fallout.
We must ban wood burning now.
Julie Mellum
Midwestern Director
Clean Air Revival
Minneapolis
Note…Elk Grove Village, Illinois, is on the western border of O’Hare Airport, and is a northwest suburb of Chicago.
Comment...All of us need to continually write letters to the newspapers and our elected officials to ban wood burning.
Ban all outdoor burning-Crain's Chicago Business
Monday, December 3, 2007
December 3, 2007-Published
Letters to the Editor
Crain’s Chicago Business
letters@chicagobusiness.com
Note...Let's hope that all communities (and the state of Illinois) seriously consider passing a law to ban all outdoor burning-the sooner the better.
Let your elected officials know we want a ban!
It is a matter of your family's breath, health, and life!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ban all outdoor burning!
Regarding “Barrington, other suburbs oppose railroad’s plan” (ChicagoBusiness.com, Nov 12), these towns are concerned about more traffic congestion, noise, declining property values, and environmental issues. But these towns already condone an activity that affects two of these issues dramatically, and also negatively affects the health of all people living in the area.
A ban on all outdoor burning is what these concerned suburbs need to adopt if they want to show they care about their residents' health. All of us must take action to protect the air we breathe and the health of our children and those with respiratory illnesses. Even we healthy people need fresh, clean air, not air saturated and polluted with noxious, and poisonous smoky emissions.
These suburbs may not be able to stop the trains, but they can easily adopt a ban on burning leaves and outdoor wood-burning fire places and fire pits if preserving the air, the environment, property values and their residents' health are really important
Elk Grove Village, Illinois
P.S. Barrington is a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
Letters to the Editor
Crain’s Chicago Business
letters@chicagobusiness.com
Note...Let's hope that all communities (and the state of Illinois) seriously consider passing a law to ban all outdoor burning-the sooner the better.
Let your elected officials know we want a ban!
It is a matter of your family's breath, health, and life!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ban all outdoor burning!
Regarding “Barrington, other suburbs oppose railroad’s plan” (ChicagoBusiness.com, Nov 12), these towns are concerned about more traffic congestion, noise, declining property values, and environmental issues. But these towns already condone an activity that affects two of these issues dramatically, and also negatively affects the health of all people living in the area.
A ban on all outdoor burning is what these concerned suburbs need to adopt if they want to show they care about their residents' health. All of us must take action to protect the air we breathe and the health of our children and those with respiratory illnesses. Even we healthy people need fresh, clean air, not air saturated and polluted with noxious, and poisonous smoky emissions.
These suburbs may not be able to stop the trains, but they can easily adopt a ban on burning leaves and outdoor wood-burning fire places and fire pits if preserving the air, the environment, property values and their residents' health are really important
Elk Grove Village, Illinois
P.S. Barrington is a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
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