From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, January 17, 2010:
The tiny town of Pinehurst, Idaho, sits in a valley and needed to do something about the pollution being caused by smoke from wood stoves.
So the federal government helped Pinehurst residents buy cleaner-burning wood stoves. The state government asked people to hold back voluntarily on wood burning when the air was dirty. The state also started promoting clean wood-burning practices.
The effort started about two years ago.
The result? The city reduced its air pollution enough to come into compliance with federal standards for the allowable level of microscopic particles known as PM 2.5.
Fairbanks continues to look for a solution to its air quality problem, caused in large part by the burning of wood to heat homes.
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