Gloria P > wrote:

>Wood-burning bans are generally in effect in places that have bad air
>quality regardless of the cause because burning wood adds airborne
>particulates which makes bad air worse. Even then, wood bans are in
>effect only on the worst air pollution days.

I believe there's a complete ban on unscrubbed wood-burning
where I live. I'd actually have to check to be certain of this,
but it's a pretty thorough ban.

Here, the worst air-pollution days are in the summer, when
nobody is burning wood anyway.

Steve