A group of ten states plan to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to update its residential wood-burning stove emissions standards, citing potential health and environmental risks the ...

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.

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 ...

This story was co-published with The Weather Channel as part of Collateral, a series on climate, data and science. BRISTOL, Vermont — Wood smoke rising from a stovepipe is as about as common a sight ...