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Environment - "Burning Issue: As wood stoves gain popularity, air-quality concerns rise"
The ILB has had many entries about outdoor, wood fired furnaces or boilers. Yesterday the WSJ had a long article by Suzanne Barlyn on the environmental hazards of indoor wood stoves. Some quotes:The soaring prices of heating oil and natural...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 16, 2008 01:13 PM
Environment - Effectiveness of LaPorte County ordinance regulating outdoor wood boilers
The ILB has posted a large number of entries on the possible regulation of outdoor wood-fired boilers or stoves used to heat homes. This entry from Nov. 24, 2007 gives some good background. Because IDEM and US EPA have both...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on February 12, 2008 01:14 PM
Environment - An update on outdoor wood-fired boilers
The ILB's first entry on wood-fired boilers was nearly two years ago. (Here is a list of all entries.) IDEM had posted a notice in the Indiana Register asking for written comments on whether a new rule should be developed...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 24, 2007 05:17 PM
Environment - Even more on: Communities seek to regulate outdoor wood-fired boilers
Adding to the ILB's now very long list of stories about the regulation of wood-fired boilers is this brief report from the Michigan City News-Dispatch: LaPORTE - A moratorium was placed on installation of new outdoor wood-fired boilers by LaPorte...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 6, 2007 08:50 AM
Ind. Law - Yet more on: Communities seek to regulate outdoor wood-fired boilers
The ILB has had a slew of entries on the topic of regulating outdoor wood-fired boilers/furnaces. First there was outrage from a southern Indiana legislator when the Dept. of Environmental Management (IDEM) published a First Notice asking for public comments...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 2, 2007 08:23 AM
Environment - Interesting report today on wood-burning outdoor boilers
Regulation of outdoor wood burning boilers/furnaces appears to be being kicked back and forth between different levels of government. Recall that last year IDEM published a request for public comments on the possibility of and need for imposing regulation of...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 29, 2006 01:01 PM
Ind. Law - Still more on: Communities seek to regulate outdoor wood-fired boilers
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 5 are two stories this weekend on wood-fired boilers/furnances. Lauri Harvey Keagle of the NWI Times has a story headed "Owners weigh in on furnace debate: NIRPC group moving forward on draft ordinance." Meanwhile,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 27, 2006 06:37 AM
Ind. Law - More on: Communities seek to regulate outdoor wood-fired boilers
Adding to numerous earlier entries on outdoor wood-fired boilers or furnaces, inlcuding this partial ILB list, are two recent stories in the Munster (NW Indiana) Times. Laura Harvey Keagle wrote on Nov. 1:PORTAGE | While there are not many outdoor...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 5, 2006 05:04 PM
Environment - Feddeler landfill threat; outdoor wood-burning furnaces
Two stories this weekend, neither very reassuring for varying reasons. Feddeler Landfill. Sharlonda L. Waterhouse of the Gary Post-Tribune reported Saturday, via a story that begins:LOWELL -- Contaminants at the improperly closed Feddeler landfill have reached one family's well water....
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 8, 2006 08:06 PM
Ind. Law - Communities seek to regulate outdoor wood-fired boilers
Updating this Sept. 11th ILB entry on municipalities taking up the ball on regulating wood-fired outdoor furnaces and boilers, Lauri Harvey Keagle of the Munster (NW Indiana) Times reports today:PORTAGE | Outdoor wood-burning furnaces may provide a good alternative to...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 21, 2006 04:24 PM
Environment - Revised ordinance for outdoor wood boilers set for review
The ILB has had many entries on the state environmental agency's efforts to regulate outdoor wood-fired boilers. The effort stalled in early 2006. Local governmental units have now begun their own efforts to address the issue. Here is an ILB...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 11, 2006 06:25 AM
Environment - Evansville seeks to regulate outdoor wood-fired boilers
The Evansville Courier& Press has a story today by Bryon Rohrig that reports:Although discussion and likely passage of a ban on the heating devices won't come until late August, an ordinance outlawing them will be introduced in the Evansville City...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 7, 2006 07:41 AM
Environment - Batesville has problems with outdoor wood-fired boilers
If I read this story correctly, no one in Batesville has heard of IDEM's proposed ordinance to consider regulation of outdoor wood-fired boilers! Here is a list of many of the recent ILB entries on the issue. And the ILB...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on February 9, 2006 03:48 PM
Environment - House amendment would prohibit regulation of wood-fired boilers
A press release of State Representative Eric Koch, dated yesterday, announced:(STATEHOUSE) Jan. 30, 2006 – An amendment by State Representative Eric Koch (R-Bedford) to House Bill 1332 would pre-empt the Indiana Department of Environmental Management from regulating outdoor wood burning...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 31, 2006 07:28 PM
Enviroment - Wood-fueled boilers stoke pollution debate
"Wood-fueled boilers stoke pollution debate" is the headline to a comprehensive story today by Tim Zorn in the Gary Post-Tribune. Some quotes:As heating costs soar, more people are using wood-fired boilers — an old technology with a new twist —...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 22, 2006 12:00 PM
Environment - More on wood-burning outdoor boilers
The ILB's first entry on outdoor wood-fired boilers, dated Dec. 5th, quoted from this comprehensive story in the South Bend Tribune. The Tribune story included this picture of what an outdoor wood-fired boiler/furnace looks like. Today WNDU 16, also from...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 9, 2006 05:35 PM
Ind. Law - Still more on IDEM's request for comments on whether and how to regulate outdoor wood-fired boilers; Bedford paper speaks out against the Indiana Register
Updating the ILB entry from Jan. 2, here is a press release from IDEM, announcing that it has extended the deadline for its 1st comment period on consideration of outdoor wood boiler rules from Jan. 3rd to March 3rd. Some...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 4, 2006 05:13 PM
Ind. Law - More on IDEM's request for comments on whether and how to regulate outdoor wood-fired boiler
Updating the ILB entry from Dec. 29th, here is some background on the origin of IDEM's request for comments on whether and how to regulate outdoor wood-fired boiler. (It is pretty long, but I noticed the ILB has gotten a...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 2, 2006 01:58 PM
Ind. Law - "IDEM had more or less kept their comment period a secret"
Bedford's WBIW is reporting this afternoon:Cities like Los Angeles might require air-quality control, however for environmentalists to claim [outdoor] wood-burning furnaces are a health problem in Indiana is ridiculous. State regulators asked for comments from Hoosiers on the subject, and...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 29, 2005 02:24 PM
Environment - Sparks fly over outdoor wood-burning furnaces
"Sparks fly over wood-burners" was the headline to this comprehensive story by Mike Lewis in the Dec. 26th Bedford Times-Mail. Some quotes:Debate is heating up about a state plan to regulate outdoor wood-burning furnaces. “People are complaining about the smoke...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 27, 2005 07:31 AM