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 ...

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 ...

Karen Paris knew something was wrong when no one answered her home phone. It would be days before she’d learn how terribly wrong, and months before she’d have a clue as to what killed her mother.

After years of battling with his wood-burning neighbor, Roger Soldano says he is at last free of the cloud of smoke that covered his property for two heating seasons. "It is just so nice to be able to ...

On a clear day, driving down Williams Drive near Judicial Road in northern Burnsville, you can’t miss the smoke. It billows from the chimney of a little building that contains an outdoor wood furnace ...

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 ...

PLATTSBURGH — The Plattsburgh Town Council will hold one more public hearing on proposed wood-boiler regulations. Local Law 1 of 2009, the Town of Plattsburgh Outdoor Wood Boilers Local Law, is ...

There are a number of advantages to outdoor wood boilers. One is that they can accept far more cordwood than even the largest wood stove, offering longer burn times. Though manual stoking is required, ...

HAMPDEN, Mass. -- Rob and Lynne Wallace jumped at the chance to install an outdoor wood boiler two years ago to heat their home and water supply. For a year, they were immune to fluctuating fuel oil ...

An ordinance that prohibits outdoor wood boilers was approved May 18 by the Savage City Council. Since November 2008, there has been a moratorium on outdoor wood boilers until city staff could study ...