EPA'S BURN WISE IS BAD NEWS FOR ALL!!!

URGENT INFORMATION---ACTION NEEDED NOW

EPA'S BURN WISE IS BAD NEWS FOR ALL!!!


The EPA is about to begin a “Burn Wise” national campaign that promotes wood burning and advises people on how to burn cleaner with EPA certified wood stoves. This could result in more wood burning and more wood smoke. This campaign is a threat to children’s health and anyone with asthma or heart disease. Wood smoke is already ruining outdoor air in metro areas throughout our country. Outdoor wood boilers are being banned, due to the severe health effects of wood smoke. This is like the tobacco promotions in the past about “smoking cleaner” with filter cigarettes. We must use this opportunity to get our opposing voices heard. Now is the time to press our decision-makers nation-wide to restrict wood burning, before more wood smoke pollutes our air and further harms our families.


Pass this on and encourage all decision-makers in your community to disallow wood burning in your communities. This is “greenwashing” at its lowest level.

PLEASE all activists, put this on your web pages, Twitter, UTube, Facebook and other websites. If someone could add a no burn icon to this, please let me know.

THE ONLY WISE BURNING IS NO BURNING

The EPA begins a wood burning campaign this Friday to encourage people to “burn wise” by burning cleaner. They also promote EPA-certified wood burning appliances, which means more wood smoke.

At the same time, their promotion states that wood smoke is harmful to children and to human health, especially for kids and people with asthma or heart disease.

DON’T BE DUPED!

Wood burning is NEVER safe!

5 Reasons not to burn wood:

1. Wood smoke is implicated in asthma attacks, heart attacks, cancer, sudden infant death syndrome and premature death in people of all ages. (American Lung Association, EPA, MPCA websites).

2. Wood smoke is a major source of fine particle pollution, the worst kind. (MPCA and EPA websites)

3. Wood smoke carries fine particulates that can be drawn deep into the lungs, causing severe damage.

4. Wood smoke contains black carbon soot, which accelerates the melting of glaciers.

5. Wood smoke’s black carbon soot contributes heavily to global warming and climate change!

6. Wood smoke violates the property rights of others to enjoy their property smoke-free.

The only answer is to contact your city councils, legislators and other decision-makers and demand that they ban wood burning in residential areas. Outdoor wood boilers (OWBs) are being banned in many cities nation-wide. NO SMOKE IS GOOD SMOKE. If they have banned cigarette smoking in public areas, why are they forcing us to breathe wood smoke in our own home and property?

WOOD SMOKE IS MORE THAN A NUISANCE—it is a severe public health hazard!

We all need to work on this important issue and we need to do it now!