Every winter as I turn on my oil burner heat unit I do so with a touch of trepidation and guilt. I pride myself on living as sustainably as possible and on my pursuit of environmentally friendly ...

You can chuckle all you want about outdoor wood furnaces and whether they’re a subject the legislature should even bother with given that there are probably only a couple of thousand in the state.

Interest in wood-fired hydronic heating systems continues to rise along with the price of conventional fuel. One heat source used for such systems, especially in rural areas of North America, is the ...

The tension between use of local, low-cost energy sources and the health effects of breathing wood smoke played out for hours in a hearing room Wednesday, as the Environment Committee heard testimony ...

Although New York has tried, with their new regulations, to get outdoor wood furnaces (OWFs) under control -- even these will not protect people who live in the vicinity of outdoor wood furnaces. The ...

WOODBRIDGE -- It looks like a shed and it will keep your home warm all winter long without using a drop of foreign oil. So what's not to like? Plenty, according to the public interest research group ...

The day that someone in your neighborhood decides to install an outdoor wood furnace is the day that you will forever regret. These smoke-belching devices will take away one of your basic rights ---- ...

Town officials should not ban outdoor wood furnaces, which offer efficient, safe heating alternatives to systems that burn fossil fuel, according to the president of a firm that has sold more than ...

NEWTOWN -- Currituck Road resident William Thiessen said the smoke from a neighbor's outdoor wood-burning furnace causes him to have frequent sore throats. Thiessen also said he has had to sleep in ...