Choosing the best firewood to burn in your home fireplace comes down to wood type and factors like its heat output, its dryness, its source, and, of course, cost. When you see signs for firewood for ...

A new peer-reviewed study quantifies broadly for the first time the air pollution and public health impacts across the United States from both manufacturing wood pellets and burning them for energy.

I wish my neighbors would burn less wood. I am writing now because, although this is a perennial problem, at least one of my neighbors has been burning a lot of wood this season, and the air around my ...

Burning wood. — Image by © Tim Sandle. Burning wood. — Image by © Tim Sandle. While only 2% of U.S. homes rely on wood as their primary heating source ...

Everyone is looking for a way to save gas right now. Some are going to greater lengths than others, and some have been doing ...

A ban on indoor and outdoor wood burning will be in place Friday in much of the Southland due to a forecast of high air pollution in the area. The residential wood-burning ban will be in effect until ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Valley Air District used to call it "Check Before You Burn," a program that runs from Nov. 1 through the end of February every ...

The South Coast Air Quality Management District has extended a No-Burn Alert forbidding people in four Southern California counties from burning wood in fireplaces or any indoor or outdoor devices ...