On a busy manufacturing floor inside a cramped 85-year-old converted dairy creamery in the city of Tower in northeastern Minnesota, a handful of workers are welding together a wood-burning furnace ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every winter as I turn on my oil burner heat unit I do so with a touch of trepidation and guilt. I pride myself on living as ...

They are popping up in backyards all over. Outdoor wood burning furnaces are replacing traditional oil and natural gas boilers as the primary heating source for some homeowners in a bid to buck ...

BEAVERTON, MI--(Marketwire - Sep 27, 2012) - Outdoor wood furnaces have become a new trend toward energy independence for many families deciding to eliminate high household energy costs by taking ...

Some Americans are now going outside to turn up their heat. They're using outdoor wood furnaces that pipe hot-water heat into their homes. But neighbors say the units are a health hazard. Federal ...

You can chuckle all you want about outdoor wood furnaces and whether they’re a subject the legislature should even bother with given that there are probably only a couple of thousand in the state.

HAMDEN -- A half-dozen residents spoke to the Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday night about the effects of outdoor wood-burning furnaces, the majority of them saying that banning them outright ...

MONTPELIER, Vt.—When oil prices climbed, more people turned to wood to heat their homes, many using outdoor wood furnaces that to some are air-polluting nuisances. From Vermont to Connecticut to ...

The tension between use of local, low-cost energy sources and the health effects of breathing wood smoke played out for hours in a hearing room Wednesday, as the Environment Committee heard testimony ...

CATSKILL — Officials in this Greene County town are considering whether regulations can be drafted for outdoor wood-burning furnaces that balance the need to stop smoke from affecting neighbors while ...