Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every winter as I turn on my oil burner heat unit I do so with a touch of trepidation and guilt. I pride myself on living as ...

For the first time in three years of trying, legislation to tighten regulations on outdoor wood furnaces has passed a chamber of the legislature. The Senate passed and sent to the House an amended ...

BEAVERTON, MI--(Marketwire - Sep 27, 2012) - Outdoor wood furnaces have become a new trend toward energy independence for many families deciding to eliminate high household energy costs by taking ...

MONTPELIER, Vt.—When oil prices climbed, more people turned to wood to heat their homes, many using outdoor wood furnaces that to some are air-polluting nuisances. From Vermont to Connecticut to ...

WOODBRIDGE -- It looks like a shed and it will keep your home warm all winter long without using a drop of foreign oil. So what's not to like? Plenty, according to the public interest research group ...

You can chuckle all you want about outdoor wood furnaces and whether they’re a subject the legislature should even bother with given that there are probably only a couple of thousand in the state.

They are popping up in backyards all over. Outdoor wood burning furnaces are replacing traditional oil and natural gas boilers as the primary heating source for some homeowners in a bid to buck ...

About nine years ago, April and Greg Bodette of Glover decided to get an outdoor wood boiler. They’d previously used a wood stove to heat their house, but the smoke and dust was a major drawback: They ...

HYDE PARK – The Town Board has passed a local law strictly regulating the use of outdoor wood-burning stoves. Officials say the furnaces can be a nuisance to neighbors due to smoke emission. While ...

SHIPSHEWANA, IN / ACCESSWIRE / May 15, 2015 / The founders of Nature's Comfort, a company that specializes in outdoor coal furnaces and boilers, recently learned that outdoor wood boilers will not be ...

Every winter as I turn on my oil burner heat unit I do so with a touch of trepidation and guilt. I pride myself on living as sustainably as possible and on my pursuit of environmentally friendly ...