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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

ROSENDALE — Relative calm marked the first heating season under a local law intended to address complaints that smoke from outdoor wood-burning furnaces was affecting neighbors. “It went quite well,” ...

PLATTSBURGH — The Plattsburgh Town Council will hold one more public hearing on proposed wood-boiler regulations. Local Law 1 of 2009, the Town of Plattsburgh Outdoor Wood Boilers Local Law, is ...

Outdoor wood boilers could come under regulation in Conewago Twp., the supervisors said Wednesday. Joel Buckley, chairman of the supervisors, said he received an inquiry from someone moving into the ...

Waitsfield, VT - Many older outdoor wood-fired boilers (OWBs) that are not certified to meet Vermont’s emissions standards are required by law to be permanently retired by the end of 2012.

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 ...

There are a number of advantages to outdoor wood boilers. One is that they can accept far more cordwood than even the largest wood stove, offering longer burn times. Though manual stoking is required, ...