10 States Plan to Sue EPA Over Emissions Standards for Residential Wood-Burning Stoves

10 States Plan to Sue EPA Over Emissions Standards for Residential Wood-Burning Stoves
A Riteway wood stove in Palmer, Alaska, on Jan. 23, 2018. Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP
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Attorneys general in 10 states intend to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the federal agency’s failure to update wood stove emission standards.

The states involved are Alaska, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington, as well as the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.