Document ID: EPA-HQ-OA-2006-0734-0013
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2023-05-12T04:00Z

MessageID:   <65527944.1398201320091.JavaMail.www@app349>
From:   American Lung Association<takeaction@lung.org>
Sent:   04/22/2014 05:15:20 PM
Subject:   Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0734

Body:  Apr 22, 2014

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy

Dear U.S. EPA McCarthy,

I am writing to urge you to set the strongest standards that will help
protect the public from breathing dangerous and deadly air pollutants
from newly manufactured wood-burning devices.  The national standards
for new devices are long-overdue and are needed to protect our health,
communities, and neighborhoods from toxic wood smoke.

The current out-of-date standards fail to protect our health.  Each
year that goes by, homeowners install thousands of new wood-burning
boilers, furnaces, and stoves that emit far too much dangerous air
pollution.  Too many Americans across the country are breathing harmful
air pollution from wood-burning devices, including soot, carbon
monoxide, and other toxic air pollutants such as benzene and
formaldehyde.

Breathing soot and toxic air pollution can damage the lungs and heart,
trigger asthma attacks and heart attacks, cause cancer and
developmental and reproductive harm, and even cut lives short. Our
children and teens, the elderly, people with asthma, lung and heart
disease, or diabetes, and even healthy adults who work or exercise
outdoors need more protective safeguards against wood smoke.

I urge you to take a stand for public health by cleaning up harmful air
pollution from all new wood-burning devices.  Our children and people
with lung disease are depending on you to clean our air and ensure the
air pollution does not get any worse.  If new wood-burning devices are
not cleaner, our neighborhoods and communities risk the consequences of
breathing unhealthy air for years.

Sincerely,

Ms. Janice Lawrence
2121 Highway 12 S Unit 12
Ashland City, TN 37015-3937
(615) 491-7739