The director of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Richard Whitman, wrote a 12 page letter in response to EPA's plans to give an extension to the 2020 new emissions requirements for wood heaters.
"Oregon DEQ finds this proposed rulemaking to be extraordinarily ill conceived. Its impacts would be to (1) delay much needed improvements in wintertime air quality to communities that are already heavily impacted by wildfire smoke, and (2) diminish the air quality of these communities for an entire generation."
Read the letter:
http://src.bna.com/EYn
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http://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/northwest-air-quality-agencies-oppose-possible-delay-federal-wood-stove-compliance-rules
"Oregon DEQ finds this proposed rulemaking to be extraordinarily ill conceived. Its impacts would be to (1) delay much needed improvements in wintertime air quality to communities that are already heavily impacted by wildfire smoke, and (2) diminish the air quality of these communities for an entire generation."
Read the letter:
http://src.bna.com/EYn
Read a summary article:
http://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/northwest-air-quality-agencies-oppose-possible-delay-federal-wood-stove-compliance-rules