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 ---- ...

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 ...

WOODBRIDGE -- It looks like a shed and it will keep your home warm all winter long without using a drop of foreign oil. So what's not to like? Plenty, according to the public interest research group ...

In an hour, an outdoor wood boiler can emit as many tiny particles of pollution as 1,800 natural gas furnaces, Miller said. Courtney Welch, a policy analyst for the National Conference of State ...

On the coldest winter nights, William K. Weir and his family wander around their house in shorts and T-shirts without feeling even a little chilly. There’s no pressure to nudge the thermostat lower, ...

Some outdoor wood boiler manufacturers boast that they can operate for two or even three days on a single stoking, but this is only by operating them in this oxygen-starved condition. When an outdoor ...

This is a topic that gets people fired up. Wood is a renewable resource after all ” and with the beetle kill, we have much to go around. Unfortunately the lack of regulations on the outdoor boilers ...

Karen Paris knew something was wrong when no one answered her home phone. It would be days before she’d learn how terribly wrong, and months before she’d have a clue as to what killed her mother.

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 ...

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 outdoor ...