New regulations to reduce fine particle pollution in Interior Alaska

The State of Alaska is implementing two new regulations aimed at reducing wintertime fine particulate pollution in the Fairbanks-North Pole area. Department of Environmental Conservation program manager Cindy Heil said one of the measures effects the real estate transactions of properties with wood stoves or wood boilers.
”If property is being sold or leased, a non-complying wood fire keeping device need to be removed or replaced,” Heil said.
Heil said the DEC has a list of heating u