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 ...

On a busy manufacturing floor inside a cramped 85-year-old converted dairy creamery in the city of Tower in northeastern Minnesota, a handful of workers are welding together a wood-burning furnace ...

TOWN OF SPRING GREEN — If you hope to save money on heating fuel by installing an outdoor wood-burning furnace, Spring Green Township officials want you to get a permit and follow some basic rules.

— Outdoor wood-burning furnaces are now subject to regulation in Oshtemo Township. The Oshtemo Township Board of Trustees on Tuesday adopted an ordinance regulating such things as the size and ...

Daryl Lamppa, a 71-year-old tinkerer born and raised in Tower, Minn., invited his son and daughter for Thanksgiving dinner a couple of months ago. Lamppa had something to show them: his own patent, ...

Tower company claims to have best wood furnace around Restricted in some big cities as smoke-belching smog machines and targeted by the federal Environmental Protection Agency for tough new emissions ...

LAKEWOOD – Complaints about the exterior wood burning furnace at 36 Ohio St. in the village of Lakewood poured in during the public comment period at the recent village board meeting. Samuel Whitmore, ...

KILLINGWORTH -- Six months after the topic first came under discussion, selectmen are sending an ordinance governing the use of wood-burning furnaces for town meeting vote in early September. First ...