Re:London girl could be first to have “air pollution” listed...
by village-idiot on Monday May 06, 2019 @10:56PM
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Can you find any references to the actual particulate emissions that’ll be allowed after 2030? I’m curious if wood burning stoves are inherently problematic, or if the EPA really is that much more strict than the U.K. equivalent.
"...the burning of solid fuels (such as house coal and wood) in our homes is the largest contributor of harmful particulate-matter (PM) emissions."
"This makes up 38% of our national PM emissions while, in comparison, industrial combustion is 16% and road transport 12%."
Wood stoves appear to have side-stepped much of our clean air legislation which is woefully out of date anyway. Coal fires have become fairly rare over the same period, so that's mostly down to wood stoves. Haven't heard of any requirements for catalytic converters, which seems a sensible idea.
In my lifetime we've gone from almost nowhere selling wood except wood yards, to everywhere does - mainly in the last 10 years - garages, corner shops, supermarkets. In neat little single use plastic bags. This government has lost 3 court cases on air pollution, and their current targets kick out real action well into the long grass: 2030.
It's ridiculous.
[1] https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/wood-burning-stoves/article/...