As the air cools and Metro Vancouver residents start dreaming of cozy fireplace evenings, there’s an important deadline on the horizon. Under Metro Vancouver’s Residential Indoor Wood Burning Bylaw, ...

Most Metro Vancouver residents with a wood-burning fireplace or wood stove will have to register their appliances by Sept. 15 as part of regional bylaws — or risk fines. The regional district says the ...

As part of an effort to improve air quality, Metro Vancouver will soon require people to register wood-burning fireplaces and stoves as well as have them commit to burning only seasoned wood, fire ...

Metro Vancouver is reminding homeowners who plan to burn wood in a fireplace, stove or furnace in an urban area this fall to register their devices online by Sept. 15. Registration is free and those ...

They produce more harmful particulate matter than diesel trucks and cigarette smoke. They release carbon dioxide and toxic chemicals that can lead to dire health and climate outcomes. Yet efforts to ...

Senate Bill 5174 would work to ensure that new wood-burning devices — think: woodstoves and fireplaces — can’t be installed unless they meet certain certification requirements and emission standards.

Washington’s Department of Ecology is “clearing the air” on a bill that aims to cut back on pollution. Senate Bill 5174, requested by the department, would ensure that new wood-burning devices — think ...