Nine AGs Filed Comments Criticizing EPA’s Testing Methods for Wood Heaters

MAY 21, 2021

New York Attorney General Letitia James led a coalition of nine attorneys general in writing a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requesting that the agency revoke two types of testing methods for certifying wood heaters. The coalition argued that these alternative methods do not accurately determine whether wood heaters comply with the New Source Performance Standard, an EPA rule which helps to control pollution and maintain air quality. Using research conducted by a number of groups in early 2021, the AGs explained that the two testing methods in question “allow too much variability” and make it easy for “manufacturers [to] effectively evade the Standard, and thus contribute to harmful air pollution.”