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Wood Smoke

EHHI Testimony On An Act Adding Wood Smoke to the Public Health Nuisance Code and Concerning Outdoor Wood-burning Furnaces

• Testimony from David Brown, Public Health Toxicologist, EHHI
• Testimony from Nancy Alderman, President, EHHI

Wood Smoke

• Wood Smoke Home
• Scientists and physicians say Outdoor Wood Furnaces are a serious health threat to those who live near them.
• A Study of the Serious Health Impacts on People Living in the Vicinity of Outdoor Wood Furnaces - also known as Outdoor Wood Boilers
• EHHI Testimony On An Act Adding Wood Smoke to the Public Health Nuisance Code and Concerning Outdoor Wood-burning Furnaces
• The Health Effects of Wood Smoke
• Outdoor Wood Burning Furnaces: Number of Complaints by Location
• American Lung Association Position Paper on Wood Smoke
• Connecticut Attorney General's position on Wood Smoke
• EHHI asks the CT Legislature to help the many people in the state who are being made sick from breathing their neighbor's wood smoke
• EHHI Op-ed on Wood Smoke
• EHS Circular Letter # 2009-32 - A letter from Connecticut Department of Public Health that discusses wood smoke as a public nuisance