Only weeks after the Environmental Protection Agency effectively banned 80 percent of the wood-burning stoves money-saving Americans use to heat their homes, the attorneys general of seven states are suing to force the agency to crack down on wood-burning water heaters.
The suit argues that the oldest heating method known to man – and a mainstay of poor, rural homes – is a health hazard, according to CNS News. .The lawsuit, filed last month by the attorneys general of Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont – Democrats all, obviously – demands that the EPA start regulating the heaters. The plaintiffs claim the devices “increase particle pollution to levels that cause significant health concerns,” according to CNS News.
Suing the EPA to get stricter about regulation is like suing Joe Biden to say something stupid,
so the lawsuit is clearly friendly to the regulators of the Obama-hyper state. They get to impose their will on the rest of us again, with the cover of a court order.
“There’s no real dispute here,” Dr. Dale Dunn, a physician and policy adviser for the conservative Heartland Institute, told CNS News.
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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/seven-states-sue-epa-crack-down-residential-wood-burning
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