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Environmental Issue: Wood Burning Fireplaces
By Jeanette Joy Fisher
Environmental Psychology considers two issues with wood burning fireplaces. What's important to
you? Your home environment for emotional support or saving the environment?
If you plan to move to a new home or to build a home, you may draw a line through a fireplace as a
necessity. Although people love the warmth, comforting crackling sounds, aromas, and moving light a
wood burning fire provides, fireplaces can emit polluted air into your home and into your neighborhood.
Most home shoppers request a fireplace. Home buyers desire a hearth, which symbolizes home.
Families gather around the fireplace during holiday celebrations and quiet conversations. Book lovers
enjoy curling up next to a fire on a cool afternoon. Many new homes feature fireplaces in the main
bedroom. After all, what’s more romantic than a fire?
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, wood-burning fireplaces emit nitrogen oxides, carbon
monoxide, organic gases, and particulate matter. These pollutants can cause serious health problems
for children, pregnant women, and people with respiratory problems. Like cigarette smoke, some of
these elements contain cancer-causing properties.
Some urban cities have considered banning wood-burning fireplaces altogether to stem the flow of
pollutants in the smog-filled air. Some California cities and counties have enacted local ordinances to
limit the growing wood smoke problem. Mammoth Lakes, Squaw Valley, Cloverdale, Fresno, and many
cities and counties in the Bay Area permit installation of only U.S.EPA certified wood-fired appliances