Fairbanks mayor pushes for woodstove trade-in program

From the Fairbanks Daily News Miner, on Monday, December 8, 2008:

The Fairbanks North Star Borough will look to create a trade-in program to reduce the number of older, inefficient home-heating systems — think old wood stoves and outdoor boilers — borough Mayor Jim Whitaker said this week.

Outdoor, wood-fired furnaces and older indoor wood stoves, particularly ones that have difficulty burning as hot as newer ones, are linked to the chronic air pollution that has landed Fairbanks in trouble with federal environmental officials.

The state and borough governments are well into a $2 million study of borough pollution and exactly where the bulk of it comes from. Air-quality specialists said they expect to have some conclusions this summer and more in 2010.

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