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Environment and Human Health, Inc.’s research shows outdoor wood furnaces are dangerous to people’s health

American Lung Association Position Paper on Wood Smoke

Connecticut Attorney General's position on Wood Smoke

Publications & Studies

Plastics

The Dangers to Health
from Outdoor Wood Furnaces

The Harmful Effects of Wood Smoke

The Health Effects of Wood Smoke

An EHHI Brochure

Background & Links

Outdoor Wood Smoke: Number of Complaints by Location

Photos of Wood Smoke Plumes

Environment and Human Health, Inc. asks the Connecticut Legislature to help the many people in the state who are being made sick from breathing their neighbor's wood smoke on a continuous basis

What's In That Smoke? - New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services

Burning Issues - Wood Smoke

Health Effects of Wood Smoke - US EPA

Areas with Restrictions on Wood burning

Wood Smoke

Video

Time-lapse video of a wood smoke plume

News & Commentary from EHHI

EHHI Testifies on An Act Adding Wood Smoke to the Public Health Nuisance Code and Concerning Outdoor Wood-burning Furnaces:

EHHI OpEd on Wood Smoke

Legislation & Regulation

Connecticut towns that have banned outdoor wood furnaces:
Granby, Tolland, Hebron, Woodbridge, South Windsor, Portland, Ridgefield, Norfolk and Haddam

The State of Washington does not allow the use of Wood-fired boilers

EHS Circular Letter # 2009-32 - A letter from Connecticut Department of Public Health that discusses wood smoke as a public nuisance

An Act Concerning the Operation of Wood Stoves

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