It’s worth repeating: “Clean burning” is a myth.

The San Francisco Bay Area starts the year off with a ban on wood burning: www.kron4.com/weather/spar...

The head of a “nonprofit organization representing the interests of solid fuel manufacturers” insists it’s not practical to reduce wood burning. 😂

“Recognizing that wood-burning stoves are not harmless appliances is the first step in reducing exposure...” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good article—but why the need to give the wood stove industry the last word? www.mirror.co.uk/money/househ...

Wishing you all a future filled with clean, wood-smoke-free air.

New story on our website: A UK resident is being smoked out by someone burning a Defra-approved “smokeless fuel”—coal. “It is mind boggling that this stuff is on a government website as being legal to burn.” www.dsawsp.org/personal-sto...

That’s a really disturbing comment thread.

“We’re being poisoned slowly, right before our eyes,” said longtime resident Carmella Wren-Causey, a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Drax. “God gave me breath when he gave me life. Drax took it away.” “Everything is worse since Drax came here” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A concerned pregnant woman on a wood stove forum asks if wood burning might perhaps be bad for health. The answer: No Way… www.reddit.com/r/woodstovin...

A new story on our website: A professional gardener is experiencing serious smoke-related health problems resulting in financial, as well as physical and emotional, strain. www.dsawsp.org/personal-sto...

So now garbage burning is considered carbon neutral…? news.mongabay.com/2025/12/boom...

Regulators and others often treat wood smoke pollution as a “nuisance” issue. But is it?

On our blog: Will Defra’s new Environmental Improvement Plan help smoked-out residents in England… or not? www.dsawsp.org/blog/are-woo...

Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, benzene, formaldehyde and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, produced by burning wood for cooking or heating can increase the risks of developing pneumonia, strokes, heart disease, lung cancer. youtu.be/ifbB2BCaprI

Recommended weekend read: theconversation.com/wood-burning...

“Wood-burning stoves are likely to face tighter restrictions in England under new pollution targets set as part of an updated environmental plan released by ministers on Monday.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A sobering weekend read... www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

“Up to 55% of fine particulate matter emitted by newer logwood stoves comprises black carbon, as toxic as that emitted from diesel engines.” www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Shocking that a government entity would post this. To be clear, there is no currently available method to burn wood without creating air pollution.

The Welsh Government should stop promoting woodburning stoves after the Advertising Standards Authority banned misleading adverts from the stove industry, according to a veteran environmental campaigner.”

The effects of wood burning go far beyond physical symptoms.

“…tobacco companies wouldn’t be consulted on health policies, so why is a lobby group whose claims have been found to be misleading be guiding a public health strategy?”

Another responsible wood burner…

New on our site: The Wood Stove Industry Tried to Silence a Health Campaign — and Lost www.familiesforcleanair.org/the-wood-sto...

Wow… now let‘s see the FTC crack down on the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association‘s claims about EPA-certified wood stoves: airqualitynews.com/legislation/...

Wow… if only everyone would take Abby’s advice www.cleveland.com/advice/2025/...

“Oxidative potential was also worst in winter, when wood burning added to the pollution mixture.”

British Medical Journal on domestic wood burning: www.bmj.com/content/391/...

A citizens’ petition to ban wood heating in Brussels, Belgium, led to a surprising reaction in the Brussels Parliament.

We’ve been called worse…

Terrible headline, but pretty good article: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Burning clean, dry wood creates dirty, polluted air.

This is a problem everywhere. People have no recourse when they are smoked out. Great work from @mumsforlungs.bsky.social for once again bringing this issue to light with figures from government records.

Wood smoke has always been harmful.

What a spin on the usual do-nothing response!😵‍💫

Air quality agencies like this one need to stop downplaying the harm of certified stoves as well, but this is a good start—much better to see old stoves scrapped than replaced with another wood stove!

Clean wood-smoke-free air matters.

Like gun a buyback program, the goal here is to take hazardous objects out of circulation: pscleanair.gov/DocumentCent...

Interesting bit of greenwashing there, describing HETAS and Woodsure (which entirely make up the so-called “Cleaner Safer Group”) as an “independent not-for-profit organisation dedicated to creating a cleaner environment.” [Cough]

Well, the “expert” is from an industry group, so what else do you expect him to do? uk.news.yahoo.com/expert-defen...