Several states are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alleging it failed to sufficiently review wood-burning stoves and its impact on the environment.
Ten states are suing thefor allowing consumers to continue buying and using wood-burning stoves, claiming the appliances are more damaging to the environment than what a previous assessment found.
A 60-day notice of intent submitted last week accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of failing to review and ensure emissions standards for residential wood-burning stoves and, as a result, allowing the continued sale of appliances that could worsen pollution, attorneys general from the ten states wrote., then programs to change out old wood heaters may provide little health benefits at significant public cost," the letter read.
The states involved are Alaska, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency also joined the states in the lawsuit. Attorneys general from Alaska, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington accused the EPA of failing to review and ensure emissions standards of residential wood-burning stoves.
The states alleged that the EPA's current standards are insufficient to ensure the safety of the environment and, even if they were, the agency's testing and certification program is outdated and ineffective in ensuring those standards.
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