Wood smoke is 90% PM2.5 and PM2.5 is the perfect size to infiltrate the human lung, setting off a cascade of human health problems and early deaths. Spread the good news: 1)The Environmental Protection Agency (E P A) held hearings in February and is taking public comments until Maon lowering the safe limits of Particulate Matter of 2.5 micrometer size (PM2.5) down to 8 micrograms per meter cubed annually and 25 micrograms per meter daily. Show up at American Lung Association lobbying days with legislators. Write resolutions for state Conservation Congresses, which resolutions, if passed, can be submitted to your state legislators, and discussed at state Conservation Congress meetings. Show up at hearings, such as the recent E P A hearings on lowering the safe level of PM2.5 emissions: they are long and difficult, but worth it. Get local ordinances passed, get state laws passed, get national laws passed. Near neighbors can monitor PM2.5 from residential wood burning with PurpleAir monitors and can download historical PurpleAir data to show that the wood burning is not necessary (done in warm weather, done by neighbors who are already hooked up to natural gas, etc…). Working with Health Departments and organizations such as the American Lung Association (A L A) and The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), and the state-run Departments of Natural Resources (D N R’s) who have input on how PurpleAir monitors are placed on E P A Airnow Maps. Working to obtain grants for PM2.5 monitors for near neighbors. Strategies should include Rapid Response to falsehoods about wood burning PM2.5 emissions, using social media, podcasts and videos on Youtube and Tiktok. Deployment of PM2.5 monitors to shut down residential wood burning may take state legislation or passage of local laws. These new PurpleAir PM2.5 monitors should be employed to regulate and shut down polluting Residential Wood Burning. The emphasis in education of the public should be on the adverse health effects to near neighbors of residential wood burners, and the new efficient tools for measuring hyper-localized PM2.5 emitted by Residential Wood Burning above safe limits set by the E P A. It does not necessarily apply to Residential Wood Burning. What can ordinary people do? Carbon Neutral terminology applies to the Biomass (Wood) Burning Industry. On the United States’ $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill declared forest bioenergy carbon neutral and instructed federal agencies to adopt policies supporting that assumption, discarding efforts in both the House and Senate to avoid the terminology. In 2023, Strategy to inform the public that Wood Burning is NOT Carbon Neutral Burning Issues Online has been telling the scientific truth about the Carbon Pollution of Wood Burning from as early as 2004. Opinions that Wood Burning is NOT Carbon Neutral from 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 20 follow. On April 23, 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would begin to count the burning of "forest biomass"-a.k.a. Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates (see and Scroll Down for PDFs of articles with U R L’s to search on, and on the website are links to 10 minute Tiktok and Youtube videos and 30 minute podcasts on Spotify and Podbean).Įp 56Ai Wood Burning is NOT Carbon Neutral 20 1 of 2 Ep 56Aj Wood Burning is NOT Carbon Neutral 2022 2 of 1 of 2 Ep 56AK Wood Burning is NOT Carbon Neutral 2021 2 of 1 of 2 Ep 56AL Wood Burning is NOT Carbon Neutral 2020 2 of 1 of 2 Ep 56AM Wood Burning is NOT Carbon Neutral 2019 2 of 1 of 2 Ep 56AN Wood Burning is NOT Carbon Neutral 2018 2 of 2, 2016 and Burning Issues 2004 Episode 56Ai to 56AN, March 23, 2023, The Wood Burning is NOT Carbon Neutral Issue
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