Взлет и падение дровяных печей: как EPA вытеснило старейший источник тепла из американских домов

About 450 American companies built wood stoves in 1982. Ten years later roughly 50 were left. No fire did that and no lawsuit did that — a rule published in February 1988 did, and it only ever applied to stoves that didn't exist yet. What no one else is telling you: from 1988 to 2021 the EPA never audited a single one of the private laboratories certifying those stoves. Thirty-three years. When auditors finally opened the files, they called it a systemic failure of the entire certification process — and the agency's own Inspector General put it in writing. In this video: the 1728 jamb stove and Franklin's 1742 Pennsylvania Fireplace, Rittenhouse's L-flue fix, Troy's stove works, wood falling from 22.7% of American homes to 0.9% by 1973, the 1973 embargo and Three Mile Island, why airtight stoves make creosote, NFPA 211's 36-inch clearance and UL 1482, Oregon's DEQ program, the 1988 New Source Performance Standards and the 8.5/5.5 and 7.5/4.1 gram limits, catalytic combustors, EPA Method 28 testing costs, the NESCAUM audit, OIG report 23-E-0012, the 2015 revision and the 2020 Step 2 deadline with no sell-through, Libby and Fairbanks, and what's still legal on your hearth. Rules, reports and standards — read, not guessed at. ⏱ Chapters: 00:00 Four hundred fifty companies 2:26 How wood came back 6:19 The codes written by fire 9:28 Eight point five grams 13:39 Thirty-three years, no audit 17:03 The stoves that became paperweights 19:29 The case against my own argument 21:29 What's still on the hearth 📚 Sources & further reading: • EPA Office of Inspector General, Report No. 23-E-0012, "The EPA's Residential Wood Heater Program Does Not Provide Reasonable Assurance…", 28 Feb 2023, six recommendations: https://www.epa.gov/office-inspector-... • NESCAUM, "Assessment of EPA's Residential Wood Heater Certification Program," March 2021 — over 250 certified heaters reviewed: https://www.nescaum.org/documents/nes... • Bipartisan coalition of 10 state attorneys general, notice of intent to sue the EPA over the wood heater NSPS, 29 June 2023: https://stateimpactcenter.org/news-ev... • Standards of Performance for New Residential Wood Heaters, 40 CFR Part 60 Subpart AAA (Feb 1988) and the 16 March 2015 revision, Federal Register; EPA Method 28 • NFPA 211 clearance requirements; UL 1482, "Solid-Fuel Type Room Heaters" • Consumer Product Safety Commission heating-equipment fire data (Dec 1981); U.S. Fire Administration residential fire estimates; U.S. Census and hearth-industry heating-fuel figures ⚠️ Disclaimer: The rules, standards and federal reports discussed here are linked above and can be read in full. Manufacturer counts before and after 1988 are trade-association estimates, not a federal census, and are presented as such. The premature-death figure attributed to residential combustion is one widely cited 2017 estimate whose exposure modelling remains contested. Nothing here is installation, code-compliance, or legal advice — clearance, certification and resale rules vary by state and locality, and you should check yours before buying, installing, or selling a wood-burning appliance. Subscribe if you'd rather have the reports than the outrage — and go read the plate on the back of your stove and put the grams-per-hour number in the comments. I want to see how many pre-1988 units are still running. wood stove EPA regulation, New Source Performance Standards 1988, EPA wood heater certification, NESCAUM 2021 audit, EPA Inspector General 23-E-0012, catalytic combustor, wood stove Step 2 2020, uncertified wood stove, Franklin stove history, PM2.5 wood smoke #WoodStove #EPARegulation #HomeHeating #WoodBurning #Creosote #OffGrid #AmericanManufacturing #AirQuality #Homesteading #IndustrialHistory