More Time to Sell Old Wood Stoves Gets New York, Alaska Fired Up

The Fairbanks North Star Borough in Alaska has some of the worst airborne particle pollution in the country, most of which comes from wood burning stoves.

New York—the second largest consumer of wood for heating—says that fine particle pollution from wood stoves pollution outstrips power plants and cars’ pollution combined. Wood stoves cause more than half of the winter particle pollution in Sacramento County, Calif.

Those states and others are pushing back on an EPA proposal that would give stove makers an additional two years to sell off older, more polluting models before they have to meet tighter federal ...