Outdoor wood-fired furnaces can be a cheap and efficient way to heat the home. But if not run properly, these furnaces can devastate community health and neighborhood relationships. Here's how to k ...

Complaint-driven regulation gives neighbors recourse. Outdoor wood boilers within 200 feet of health care facilities, schools, and other public places, however, must be replaced.

Save money and increase self-reliance with this DIY wood burning furnace. Building a homemade outdoor wood furnace can heat your home and hot water.

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.

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 ...

For outdoor wood furnaces, the EPA only suggests standards for cleaner burning. Twenty-three models of outdoor furnace now meet those standards, said David Deegan, an EPA spokesman in Boston.

NYS has done a poor job of educating and protecting the public when it comes to the issue of wood smoke. Wood smoke is the new cigarette smoke. Wood smoke contains many of the same carcinogens as ...

Plenty, according to the public interest research group Environmental and Human Health Inc., which on Monday released a 50-page report that said outdoor wood furnaces -- or OWFs, as they're known ...

SARANAC LAKE -- Two out of three villages in the Tri-Lakes now restrict outdoor wood boilers. Both Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake held public hearings and passed laws last week restricting the ...

An ordinance that prohibits outdoor wood boilers was approved May 18 by the Savage City Council. Since November 2008, there has been a moratorium on outdoor wood boilers until city staff could stud… ...

The day that someone in your neighborhood decides to install an outdoor wood furnace is the day that you will forever regret. These smoke-belching devices will take away one of your basic rights ...

Wood boilers, increasingly popular in rural areas as energy costs rise, transfer heat through water lines from an outside structure to a home for both space and water heating.