SCHENECTADY — Five years ago, David Dungate was in Vancouver looking for a place to start a plant to build European-designed, high-efficiency wood-fired boilers. While he could have gone anywhere in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Board of Health has voted to ban outdoor wood boilers that heat houses or other buildings, though the new regulation needs the state Department of Environmental Protection's approval. Board ...

OXFORD -- The smoke emanating from outdoor wood-burning furnaces can lie thick and low. Rather than rising and dispersing, it can spread out, leaving smoky particles hanging about. In a time when ...

On the coldest winter nights, William K. Weir and his family wander around their house in shorts and T-shirts without feeling even a little chilly. There’s no pressure to nudge the thermostat lower, ...

WAUSAU, Wis.—An explosion in the number of outdoor wood-fired boilers to heat homes is creating a new air quality problem—their smoke is choking neighbors. Over the past three years, the Wisconsin ...

These boilers can be installed somewhat closer to a neighboring property line – no closer than 50 feet – with the thinking that they will be less polluting. Rick Devoid, manager of Northwood Power in ...

Almost 40 years ago when my company Stadler Corporation introduced one of the first residential European wood boilers to New England, they were elementary in design and in their infancy of wood ...

SARANAC LAKE -- Two out of three villages in the Tri-Lakes now restrict outdoor wood boilers. Both Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake held public hearings and passed laws last week restricting the outdoor ...

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP -- Township Supervisor Alan Miltich seems to have an agenda against exterior wood boilers. My husband and I received a letter dated Oct. 15 from Supervisor Miltich that stated that he ...

David Frank, co-owner of SunWood Biomass, shows the chute through which wood pellets are delivered to Susan Clark’s home in Middlesex. Photo by Elizabeth Gribkoff/VTDigger MIDDLESEX — Renewable energy ...