EPA To Alaskans In Sub-Zero Temps: Stop Burning Wood To Keep Warm In Alaska’s interior, where it can reach -50 degrees Fahrenheit in winter, the EPA wants people to stop burning wood. But it's just about their only feasible way to stay warm. In Jack London’s famous short story, “To Build A Fire,” a man freezes to death because he underestimates the cold in America’s far north and cannot build a proper fire. The unnamed man—achechaquo, what Alaska natives call newcomers—is accompanied by a wolf-dog that knows the danger of the cold and is wholly indifferent to the fate of the man. “This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.” If only the bureaucrats in Washington DC knew what the wolf-dog knew. But alas, now comes the federal government to tell the inhabitants of Alaska’s interior that, really, they should not be building fires to keep themselves warm during the winter. The New York Times reports the Environmental Protection Agency could soon declare the Alaskan cities of Fairbanks and North Pole, which have a combined population of about 100,000, in “serious” noncompliance of the Clean Air Act early next year. Like most people in Alaska, the residents of those frozen cities are burning wood to keep themselves warm this winter. Smoke from wood-burning stoves increases small-particle pollution, which settles in low-lying areas and can be breathed in. The EPA thinks this is a big problem. Eight years ago, the agency ruled that wide swaths of the most densely populated parts of the region were in “non-attainment” of federal air quality standards. That prompted state and local authorities to look for ways to cut down on pollution from wood-burning stoves, including the possibility of fining residents who burn wood. After all, a declaration of noncompliance from the EPA would have enormous economic implications for the region, like the loss of federal transportation funding. The problem is, there’s no replacement for wood-burning stoves in Alaska’s interior. Heating oil is too expensive for a lot of people, and natural gas isn’t available. So they’ve got to burn something. The average low temperature in Fairbanks in December is 13 degrees below zero. In January, it’s 17 below. During the coldest days of winter, the high temperature averages -2 degrees, and it can get as cold as -60. This is not a place where you play games with the cold. If you don’t keep the fire lit, you die. For people of modest means, and especially for the poor, that means you burn wood in a stove—and you keep that fire lit around the clock. more...
Wow, they making sure the air is not hazardous to breath! OMG !!! To idiot Trumpers this is bad thing. And all they are doing is saying the air is too dirty, that's all. No fines. No sanctions. No nothing. Big fuggin deal. But idiot Trumpers get all hystercial over the smallest stupidest things. It's because of what they read, which isn't much and poorly comprehended when actually read. Where is this article from? The Federalist! LOL Try a non-shit source next time fool. Holy shit you idiots are gullible sheep.
This is the same EPA under Obama which increased hard particle air pollution in the Southeast due to their power plant policies. The Obama administration required that coal-fired power plants remove hard particle scrubbers be removed and replaced with CO2 scrubbers (that do far less for hard particle reduction). This led immediately to increased hard particle pollution in the Southeast and increased number of people suffering related medical issues. This was all part of the Obama administration policy with the EPA to fight "global warning" by forcing coal-fired power plants to shut down. Most power plants have installed expensive hard-particle scrubbers during the past two decades due to the previous demands of the EPA, and now the Obama Administration is demanding that they be removed and replaced with expensive CO2 scrubbers. In reality the intent of these demands was only to make it too expensive for the coal-fired power plants to run, and was part of the Obama administration's "War on Coal". The EPA, nor Obama, seemed to care that their policy was killing people and increasing air pollution. As long as the climate alarmists got their way to drive policies that lead to the shuttering of coal-fired power plants then a few dead U.S. citizens as a side-effect was perfectly acceptable in their minds.
You hear these losers like Faggotcurrents who hate science. They just love their own brand of truth and hypocrisy. They hate pictures and videos and any well written article that doesn't suit their agenda. They would prefer we read only what they wrote by candlelight. Anti science and total hypocrites. Imagine Lecturing anyone about the environment when your job is polluting the environment? Losers like this need to be set on fire by ISIS.
No, the simple brains are the stupid urbanites (aka ghetto people) who didn't get off their lazy asses and get out and vote for Hillary. Most likely because she wasn't black. Makes you wonder if these black voters hadn't voted in the last 2 elections whether Barry would of ever been President. I don't think he would of. He would still be a nobody Senator from the Chicago hood. Black people are so racist, therefore the BM movement (which apparently has died out since they never make the news anymore). Oh that's right. Obama is no longer going to be President. Time to go sit back down on the welfare couch and chill out until the next Black man or woman runs for President.
And yet the Trumpers are still illiterate dumb-asses. And all of them are dumb white people. Dumb, ignorant, illiterate, savage white trash. As long as you are being the typical racist Trumper.