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Episode 57DHXF July 14 2025 Farm subsidies for the least sustainable biofuels to well off farmers 1 Self explanatory Headlines can be read and understood without further explanation by the editor of RAWSEP Short Explanations of the remaining 8 Headlines 2 All Headlines Main Content 1 Short Explanations of the remaining 8 Headlines 1 Democrats opposing Trump Opinion Governors Should Be the Face of the Democratic Party The New York Times Explanation Laura Kelly is the Democratic governor of Kansas 2 Democrats and Rural Areas Opinion Democrats Should No Longer Back Bad Farm Policies The New York Times Explanation Excerpts edited for brevity and clarity by Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501C3 non profit organization The big beautiful bill that President Trump signed into law on July 4 accelerates the egregious bipartisan tradition of showering taxpayer dollars on well off farmers It is projected to pour more than $90 billion into new agricultural subsidies and tax credits for farm grown fuels like corn ethanol while making it easier for the biggest farmers to vacuum up cash and the least sustainable biofuels to qualify for credits It gets worse The congressional Republicans who passed the bill without Democratic votes also ended the tradition of pairing the lavish handouts known as the farm safety net with an actual food safety net for the poor 3 Trump Actions and Europe Opinion Europe Is Terrifyingly Hot and Its Leaders Are Doing Worse Than Nothing The New York Times Explanation Excerpts edited for brevity and clarity by Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501C3 non profit organization From late June to early this month temperatures across the continent soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit particularly afflicting Spain and France As wildfires flared and drought loomed emergency measures kicked in Nuclear reactors shut down construction workers were told to stay home schools canceled whole days of classes and the Eiffel Tower was closed to visitors Such stopgaps though could only limit the damage By initial estimates the 10 day heat wave left some 2 300 dead These emergencies are going to keep happening Not only are we rushing toward devastating global warming but Europe is also heating faster than other regions This was a time to recognize the need for more resolute action to tackle the root causes of extreme heat and work harder to cut emissions The European politicians had the chance to prove what they often claim that the European Union is a world leader on the green transition They did not take it mustering only platitudes about staying safe Instead the European leaders are pulling back from climate measures they agreed to in years past Faced with economic challenges and geopolitical mayhem an emboldened right wing chorus is claiming that the European Union is doing too much already Disastrously European leaders are caving in to these voices They are reining in their ambitions to green the economy and delivering their citizens to a terrifyingly hot future It is a real change of mood from just a few years ago 4 Trump and RFK Junior and Medicine and Science Cuts Measles Outbreaks Symptoms Spread and Vaccination Information The New York Times Explanation Excerpts edited for brevity and clarity by Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501C3 non profit organization Measles cases

Episode 56TSb April 2024. Milwaukee County area, Wisconsin, PurpleAir PM2.5 twelve monthly averages in Orange, and one yearly average in Red, in micrograms per cubic meter for 25 hyperlocalized monitors. DateTime Bayside, WI A Whitefish Bay North A Love My Air Wisconsin: Browning School, MPS A Shorewood East A Love My Air Wisconsin: Westside Academy, MPS A Love My Air Wisconsin: Hopkins Lloyd School, MPS A 5/1/2023 0:00 30 6/1/2023 0:00 75 7/1/2023 0:00 37 51 8/1/2023 0:00 38 51 9/1/2023 0:00 25 38 10/1/2023 0:00 20 31 11/1/2023 0:00 26 41 12/1/2023 0:00 28 47 41 41 1/1/2024 0:00 23 47 34 33 2/1/2024 0:00 30 50 41 49 3/1/2024 0:00 15 21 29 24 22 4/1/2024 0:00 11 49 22 23 21 20 MonthlyYearAve 30 49 22 41 32 33 Monitor number 1 2 3 4 5 6 Monitor name Bayside, WI A Whitefish Bay North A Love My Air Wisconsin: Browning School, MPS A Shorewood East A Love My Air Wisconsin: Westside Academy, MPS A Love My Air Wisconsin: Hopkins Lloyd School, MPS A Municipality Milwaukee County Area Milwaukee County Area Milwaukee County Area Milwaukee County Area Milwaukee County Area Milwaukee County Area DateTime Love My Air Wisconsin: Allen-Field Elementary School, MPS A Love My Air Wisconsin: Lincoln Avenue School, MPS A Backyard A WV9U A Brookhill Estates A Base station Beta A 5/1/2023 0:00 24 33 6/1/2023 0:00 73 88 7/1/2023 0:00 36 48 56 49 8/1/2023 0:00 213 48 52 51 9/1/2023 0:00 5302 34 38 36 10/1/2023 0:00 27 26 30 29 11/1/2023 0:00 36 34 44 40 12/1/2023 0:00 40 41 37 34 46 43 1/1/2024 0:00 35 36 34 33 49 47 2/1/2024 0:00 42 42 42 37 47 45 3/1/2024 0:00 25 25 22 22 26 27 4/1/2024 0:00 21 24 18 18 19 23 MonthlyYearAve 33 34 489 38 41 39 Monitor number 7 8 9 10 11 12 Monitor name Love My Air Wisconsin: Allen-Field Elementary School, MPS A Love My Air Wisconsin: Lincoln Avenue School, MPS A Backyard A WV9U A Brookhill Estates A Base station Beta A Municipality Milwaukee County Area Milwaukee County Area Milwaukee County Area Milwaukee County Area Milwaukee County Area Milwaukee County Area

Episode 56TSa April 2024. Dane County, Wisconsin, PurpleAir PM2.5 twelve monthly averages in Orange, and one yearly average in Red, in micrograms per cubic meter for 25 hyperlocalized monitors. DateTime Turner A Daniel A Lacy Heights A GoPackOutside A Hickory Hills A 950 Clarence Ct A Dudgeon-Monroe A Shorewood Hills A 5/1/2023 0:00 35 33 26 35 6/1/2023 0:00 105 103 88 80 96 126 7/1/2023 0:00 46 47 42 34 45 47 8/1/2023 0:00 49 50 47 42 48 51 9/1/2023 0:00 34 39 35 30 26 33 34 10/1/2023 0:00 24 22 26 23 16 26 24 11/1/2023 0:00 31 30 32 28 20 33 33 12/1/2023 0:00 39 39 37 33 24 38 40 1/1/2024 0:00 42 45 39 34 21 40 47 2/1/2024 0:00 38 39 22 33 25 39 41 3/1/2024 0:00 26 27 26 24 18 26 26 4/1/2024 0:00 19 17 20 19 12 20 17 22 MonthlyYearAve 41 32 39 36 29 40 44 22 Monitor number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Monitor name Turner A Daniel A Lacy Heights A GoPackOutside A Hickory Hills A 950 Clarence Ct A Dudgeon-Monroe A Shorewood Hills A Municipality Berry Black Earth Fitchburg Maple Bluff Mount Horeb Madison Madison Madison DateTime Elinor and Gary A Elmside Circle Park A LaFollette High School A LAWD2 A LAWD4 A LAWD5 A LAWD6 A 5/1/2023 0:00 20 33 41 34 6/1/2023 0:00 96 77 115 105 118 159 7/1/2023 0:00 33 40 49 47 46 50 8/1/2023 0:00 37 42 52 50 50 53 9/1/2023 0:00 23 27 19 37 35 34 39 10/1/2023 0:00 22 20 14 26 26 24 27 11/1/2023 0:00 38 23 18 35 33 32 34 12/1/2023 0:00 43 24 19 45 38 39 40 1/1/2024 0:00 38 23 17 49 41 44 45 2/1/2024 0:00 32 26 20 50 39 39 41 3/1/2024 0:00 13 20 15 27 26 25 27 4/1/2024 0:00 7 16 11 20 20 19 59 MonthlyYearAve 34 31 17 46 41 43 52 Monitor number 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Monitor name Elinor and Gary A Elmside Circle Park A LaFollette High School A LAWD2 A LAWD4 A LAWD5 A LAWD6 A Municipality Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison DateTime SASY1A A SASY 3b A SASY 6 A Sasy7a A 9 N. Third A 5/1/2023 0:00 35 29 30 6/1/2023 0:00 89 113 88 77 7/1/2023 0:00 42 36 38 36 8/1/2023 0:00 47 38 591 39 9/1/2023 0:00 33 20 23 10/1/2023 0:00 24 12 20 17 11/1/2023 0:00 32 19 26 20 12/1/2023 0:00 35 17 29 20 24 1/1/2024 0:00 35 17 27 17 32 2/1/2024 0:00 35 21 29 21 35 3/1/2024 0:00 24 14 20 17 24 4/1/2024 0:00 18 9 15 14 20 MonthlyYearAve 37 29 83 28 27 Monitor number 16 17 18 19 20 Monitor name SASY1A A SASY 3b A SASY 6 A Sasy7a A 9 N. Third A Municipality Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison DateTime 1885 E. Main Street, Madison, WI 53704 A Wexford Village - Madison A MNA WilMar Location A Wholly Rooted Farm A Griffin A 5/1/2023 0:00 31 31 33 6/1/2023 0:00 93 73 91 7/1/2023 0:00 46 37 41 48 8/1/2023 0:00 51 38 47 53 9/1/2023 0:00 34 26 31 37 10/1/2023 0:00 19 19 24 29 11/1/2023 0:00 22 29 38 12/1/2023 0:00 25 34 46 1/1/2024 0:00 27 37 51 52 2/1/2024 0:00 25 36 47 32 3/1/2024 0:00 19 25 28 27 4/1/2024 0:00 12 15 19 19 21 MonthlyYearAve 41 30 37 40 33 Monitor number 21 22 23 24 25 Monitor name 1885 E. Main Street, Madison, WI 53704 A Wexford Village - Madison A MNA WilMar Location A Wholly Rooted Farm A Griffin A Municipality Madison Madison Madison Deerfield Deforest

Episode 56TR May 3, 2024. UK elections lean Labour, Turkey PM2.5 pollution deaths higher than for COVID. In Episode 56TR, 1)United Kingdom, London. RAWSEP View: A 2025 UK Labour government may be more predisposed to stop Drax subsidies for industrial wood burning, and may be more predisposed to support enforcement of indoor residential wood burning pollution regulation. 2)United States. RAWSEP View: Home insurers retreat in wildfire prone areas. 3)Envirotec Magazine. Counting the microns. The United states changed the safe annual limits for PM 2.5 from 12 to 9 µg/m3, seemingly to reflect new adverse human health and climate effect findings. The EPA presents a sliding scale of lethality for PM2.5 exposure. May, 2024. 4)Turkey, Istanbul. Invisible pandemic: Air pollution's toll on lives in Istanbul. RAWSEP View; PM2.5 monitors are helpful in detecting conditions that can lead to preventable adverse health effects. One researcher said, in this article. "We call air pollution an invisible killer, but at times, it becomes visible. There are daily reporting apps that measure the quality of the air we breathe. By checking these before going outside, especially if you have a chronic illness, and wearing a mask if the air quality is low or avoiding going out during times of intense pollution, we can protect ourselves from its effects,". Particulate matter is defined as solid or aerosol particles suspended in the air, with PM 10 and PM 2.5 representing their diameter in micrometers. 5)New York, Manorhaven. RAWSEP View: This article does not mention the health effects of PM2.5 emissions from wood burning. The discussion only touches on wood burning violating codes. The End Of An Oven. May 1, 2024. 6)Massachusetts, Greenfield. Two opinions on wood burning pollution, one in April 2024 sounding an alarm that we must stop subsidizing wood burning, with one this May treating wood burning as a non-existent problem, a bogeyman, a hallucination of pollution, pollution that doesn’t exist, in the opinion of the May 2024 opinion writer. 7)New York, Bushwick. FDNY battle massive supermarket fire that spread to several buildings. 9)California, El Dorado County. Burn Day. 10)Oregon. Working Smoke Alarm Awakens Residents. 11)Oregon, Medford. RAWSEP View: Hopefully, these wood chipper days result in the wood chips being composted into usable soil. Soil is non flammable. 12)Wisconsin, Ripon. Throwback Thursday: Fires often swept throughout Ripon. 13)Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax. Burn Permit. 14)New Zealand, Southland. Limitations on fires, outdoor burning kick in in Southland. 15)India. Reducing air pollution key to fight new diabetes cases in India. 16)Korea. Atmosphere particulate matter and respiratory diseases during COVID-19 in Korea. 1)United Kingdom, London. RAWSEP View: A 2025 UK Labour government may be more predisposed to stop Drax subsidies for industrial wood burning, and may be more predisposed to support enforcement of indoor residential wood burning pollution regulation. From the article below: Labour, in UK local council elections held 5/2/2024, won in the third largest Tory-to-Labour shift since World War II. Blackpool South was one key victory over a “red wall”. General elections will be held within 9 months (by February 2025). Labour leader Keir Starmer may turn out to be the next UK prime minister. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/labour-wins-back-key-seat-as-sunak-suffers-big-election-losses/ar-AA1o4SSU?ocid= Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. May 2, 2024. Labour won back a bellwether parliamentary seat from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives in northwest England, as early local election results suggested the UK’s Labour Party may return to power. Labour’s Chris Webb won 58.9% of ballots cast, in an election for the “red wall” seat in Blackpool triggered after the Tory MP resigned in scandal. To

Episode 56TQ May 2, 2024. The Future of New York City’s Pizza Is Electric, just in time for a new city ordinance. In Episode 56TQ 1a) The Future of New York City’s Pizza Is Electric, just in time for a new city ordinance. 1b)Overview of a pizza sauce recipe. 1c)Overview of a recipe for pizza dough. 1d)Detroit style pizza recipe overview. 1a)New York, New York City. The Future of New York City’s Pizza Is Electric, just in time for a new city ordinance regulating pollution emitted by wood- and coal-fired ovens. RAWSEP View: Electric pizza ovens can replace wood burning pizza ovens. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/dining/new-york-pizza-electric-ovens.html?searchResultPosition=1 Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. A pizza parlor in Greenpoint, Brooklyn is one of New York City’s most famous wood-fired pizzerias, and it is switching to electric ovens. What’s new is not the continued farmers’ market-ification of ingredients, nor is it the ever-expanding definition of what can go on a pizza (ham and horseradish cream, anyone?). It’s not the buzzy, inventive pop-ups. Instead, the ovens themselves are in transition. New York City’s accomplished pizza makers have seen the writing on the wall: A consultant who has worked across New York City and the world says “the future is electric.” Electric ovens can get almost as hot as a wood oven, which can burn at approximately 900 degrees. But in the lunch rush, when employees must repeatedly open and close the oven door, pizza makers say electric ovens retain their heat better than gas-fired pizza ovens. Slices made in an electric oven can cook hotter and faster, so the crust is crispy and the cheese bubbly without worrying about heat retention. “An electric oven is like a Tesla. It’s like paint by numbers, You just put it in, turn it and take it out.” In West Village’s Mama’s Too, the change has been made to electric pizza ovens. The inevitability of electric pizza ovens is now here. After a yearslong delay, a citywide ordinance went into effect on April 27 that requires wood- and coal-fired oven users to make expensive upgrades to curb particulate matter pollution. Beth DeFalco, a deputy commissioner for public affairs, said the city’s Department of Environmental Protection is entirely focused on outreach and does not plan to start enforcing the rules until next year. In the interim, the city is speaking to the final holdouts, about 90 wood- and coal-burning pizzerias. “We’re just trying to comply with the law,” Ms. DeFalco said, adding, “It’s asking them to do what every other pizzeria has been doing for years.” The owner of Paulie Gee’s wouldn’t open another wood-fired spot again. “It’s just too much of a hassle,” he said. 1b)Overview of a pizza sauce recipe. To tomato paste, for a little kick, add an additional ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper. Canned crushed tomatoes can be added. Pizza sauce freezes well for up to 3 months. Before using, thaw overnight in the refrigerator, or in a covered saucepan set over low heat, with a little water added. 1c)Overview of a recipe for pizza dough adapted from a pizza and hipster haute-cuisine utopia in Bushwick, Brooklyn. This dough, which will last in the refrigerator for a week. asks for a mixture of finely ground Italian pizza flour (designated “00” on the bags, and always available online) and regular all-purpose flour. 1d)Detroit style pizza recipe overview. With cheesy edges, a thick and chewy crust, and a reverse order of toppings, Detroit-style pizza! This hearty pie first appeared on a Detroit menu in 1946. Using sharp, aged Wisconsin brick cheese cut into cubes, with some touching the sides of the pan, helps create the pizza’s coveted burnished edges. Any 9-by-13-inch metal baking pan will work. Use bread flour to create a light and chewy crumb. ode 56TQ May 2, 2024. The Future of New York City’s Pizza Is Electric, just in time for a new city ordinance. In Episode 56TQ 1a) The Future of New York City’s Pizza Is Electric, just in time for a new city ordinance. 1b)Overview of a pizza sauce recipe. 1c)Overview of a recipe for pizza dough. 1d)Detroit style pizza recipe overview. 1a)New York, New York City. The Future of New York City’s Pizza Is Electric, just in time for a new city ordinance regulating pollution emitted by wood- and coal-fired ovens. RAWSEP View: Electric pizza ovens can replace wood burning pizza ovens. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/dining/new-york-pizza-electric-ovens.html?searchResultPosition=1 Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. A pizza parlor in Greenpoint, Brooklyn is one of New York City’s most famous wood-fired pizzerias, and it is switching to electric ovens. What’s new is not the continued farmers’ market-ification of ingredients, nor is it the ever-expanding definition of what can go on a pizza (ham and horseradish cream, anyone?). It’s not the buzzy, inventive pop-ups. Instead, the ovens themselves are in transition. New York City’s accomplished pizza makers have seen the writing on the wall: A consultant who has worked across New York City and the world says “the future is electric.” Electric ovens can get almost as hot as a wood oven, which can burn at approximately 900 degrees. But in the lunch rush, when employees must repeatedly open and close the oven door, pizza makers say electric ovens retain their heat better than gas-fired pizza ovens. Slices made in an electric oven can cook hotter and faster, so the crust is crispy and the cheese bubbly without worrying about heat retention. “An electric oven is like a Tesla. It’s like paint by numbers, You just put it in, turn it and take it out.” In West Village’s Mama’s Too, the change has been made to electric pizza ovens. The inevitability of electric pizza ovens is now here. After a yearslong delay, a citywide ordinance went into effect on April 27 that requires wood- and coal-fired oven users to make expensive upgrades to curb particulate matter pollution. Beth DeFalco, a deputy commissioner for public affairs, said the city’s Department of Environmental Protection is entirely focused on outreach and does not plan to start enforcing the rules until next year. In the interim, the city is speaking to the final holdouts, about 90 wood- and coal-burning pizzerias. “We’re just trying to comply with the law,” Ms. DeFalco said, adding, “It’s asking them to do what every other pizzeria has been doing for years.” The owner of Paulie Gee’s wouldn’t open another wood-fired spot again. “It’s just too much of a hassle,” he said. 1b)Overview of a pizza sauce recipe. To tomato paste, for a little kick, add an additional ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper. Canned crushed tomatoes can be added. Pizza sauce freezes well for up to 3 months. Before using, thaw overnight in the refrigerator, or in a covered saucepan set over low heat, with a little water added. 1c)Overview of a recipe for pizza dough adapted from a pizza and hipster haute-cuisine utopia in Bushwick, Brooklyn. This dough, which will last in the refrigerator for a week. asks for a mixture of finely ground Italian pizza flour (designated “00” on the bags, and always available online) and regular all-purpose flour. 1d)Detroit style pizza recipe overview. With cheesy edges, a thick and chewy crust, and a reverse order of toppings, Detroit-style pizza! This hearty pie first appeared on a Detroit menu in 1946. Using sharp, aged Wisconsin brick cheese cut into cubes, with some touching the sides of the pan, helps create the pizza’s coveted burnished edges. Any 9-by-13-inch metal baking pan will work. Use bread flour to create a light and chewy crumb.

Episode 56TP May 1, 2024. American Lung Association State of the Air podcast, Love My Air in Colorado. In Episode 56TP, 1)American Lung Association. Lungcast on Spotify. Listen here. Air Quality Issues Due to Particle Pollution with John Balmes, MD – HCPLive. RAWSEP View: The synopsis of this podcast does not mention the contribution to PM2.5 from indoor residential wood burning. RAWSEP interjects that the professor does not mention the PM2.5 pollution emitted from wood burning power plants that have been deployed to replace coal burning power plants in recent years. Wood burning emissions are not counted when calculating if a nation like the United States is meeting its climate goals. Using Wood burning power plants instead of coal burning power plants actually creates more PM2.5 and CO2 pollution, which isn’t counted, so using wood burning power plants in reality brings us closer to climate change, not farther away, Wood burning emits 2.8 times the PM2.5 and CO2 as the fossil fuel coal burning emits. Wood burning also emits 450 times the PM2.5 as the fossil fuel natural gas burning emits. 2)Colorado. Wheat Ridge. RAWSEP View: 10 Love my Air, PM2.5 monitors to be deployed. If the PM2.5 monitors are not located hyperlocally in the yards of near neighbors of indoor residential wood burners, the PM2.5 pollution that sickens the near neighbors of indoor residential wood burners will not be detected. 3)Alabama, Birmingham. Annual ban on open burning in a dozen counties goes into effect May 1, 4)California, Half Moon Bay. RAWSEP View: You can dispose of fallen tree debris without burning it, for instance compost it into usable soil. Soil is not flammable. 5)Florida, Tallahassee. Florida State University. Dog killed in fire. FSU student who lost dog in fire, other survivors get support from community, university. 6)New Mexico, Albuquerque. University of New Mexico (UNM), Lomas Chiller Plant, 1925 Las Lomas Rd. 7)Idaho, Bonner County. Try to avoid the dangers of breathing smoke from fires. 8)Minnesota, Winthroop. Heartland fined $11,200 for air permit violations. A filtering bag-house also failed a stack test for emitting very small particulate matter (PM 2.5). 9)Nevada, Lake Tahoe. Small scale prescribed fire operations continue. 10)New York, New York City. Goodbye, Gas. The Future of New York City's Pizza Is Electric. The New York Times. And just in time for a new city ordinance regulating pollution emitted by wood- and coal-fired ovens. 11)Rhode Island, Providence. Brown University. A Looming Health Crisis Shadows the South's Wood Pellet Boom. 12)Canada. Canada Needs to Get Tough on Wood Pellet Exports | The Tyee Where to count emissions? Drax Power began burning wood instead of coal in 2012 and fully phased out fossil fuels last year. The power plant remains. 13)New Zealand, Taupo District. RAWSEP View: ;Do not burn wood at all in New Zealand.Taupō District Council's Top Tips For Burning Smoke-free This Winter. 14)United Kingdom. The UK cities most impacted by toxic air particles mapped iNews. United Kingdom, Watford. Cause of fire investigated after dark smoke rose above Watford. United Kingdom, Yorkshire. Consultation launches on the use of domestic wood burners - East Riding of Yorkshire Council wood burning stoves, or other solid fuel heating, in local households. The project aims to better understand the burning of solid fuels in East Riding of Yorkshire. 16)China. Government fiscal decentralization and haze and carbon reduction. 17)Indonesia, Jakarta. Jakarta's Air Quality Is Getting Worse Until August. 18)Laos. Smoke-filled skies become growing concern in Laos. 19)Malaysia, Sarawak. Fire Engulfs Tyre And Wood Piles At Lumber Mill. 20)Nepal, Kathmandu. Kathmandu tops chart of world's most polluted cities. 21)Taiwan. Environment Ministry Planning to Revise Rules for Air Quality Control Zones. 22)Thailand, Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Chiang Mai, Bangkok rank in world's top 10 for worst air quality. 1)American Lung

Episode 56T O April 30, 2024. In January 2029, indoor residential wood burning will be in the ashheap of history. In Episode 56T O, 1)In January 2029, indoor residential wood burning will be in the ashheap of history. 2)Canada, British Columbia. In a bold move, BC Greens argue that breathing clean air is good for you. April 24, 2024. 3)United Kingdom. Email from Global Action Plan. April 30, 2024. 1)In January 2029, indoor residential wood burning will be in the ashheap of history. At the end of the Biden Presidency on January 20, 2029, where will Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates be, when RAWSEP’s editor declines to continue the website, videos and podcasts, saying that all that needed to be accomplished, has been accomplished? For three years, from 2026 to 2029 the website remained as a watchdog as all the countries of the world, one by one, enacted legislation that would shut down any polluting indoor residential wood burning appliance whose PM2.5 smoke entered the yard of a near neighbor and sickened the near neighbor. This regulation and elimination of indoor residential wood burning only highlighted the absurdity of wood burning remaining as an alternative to coal burning in power plants, and RAWSEP’s editor watched as in country after country, coal burning and wood burning power plants were replaced by truly clean renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and geothermal powering an electric grid extending to all rural areas. The problems of energy storage were solved by better batteries and the perfection of energy storage systems. There was a Heat Pump in every residence by 2026, surprisingly. Background for this story. The New York Times on 4/30/2024 posed questions to, and received answers from, 12 congresspeople resigning from their seats in Congress in 2024. On January 20th, 2029 when RAWSEP’s editor takes off the green eyeshade and turns off the software program for the last time, this is how she would answer similar questions. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/30/opinion/congress-resignations.html?campaign_id=: Questions edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Question 1: What’s one word you would use to describe Air Pollution today? Answer 1: We’ve improved with a capital I. Question 2: Was Congress corrupt in the past, when they voted to retain the idea of Carbon Neutrality of Wood Burning? Answer 2: Yes, they were beholden to the wood burning industry, and in trying to meet misleading Climate Goals that ignored, and didn’t count, the CO2 and PM2.5 from wood burning, they hastened Climate Change instead of slowing down Climate Change. Queston 3: What was your most frustrating experience? Answer 3: Explaining that wood burning toastiness causes Toasted Skin Syndrome. People didn’t seem to get it. People thought it was like being in a tanning bed, and they liked the look of the blotches. Question 4: What’s the best perk of the job? Answer 4: Seeing that the mothers of children exposed to PM2.5 pollution from nearby indoor residential wood burning could make their neighborhoods safe again, when the hyper-localized indoor residential wood burning stopped. Question 5: Did you make a difference? Answer 5: The highest profile people, and the people who were listened to the most, were mothers and their children. When I showcased their stories, I made a difference. Question 6: How do you fix Congress? Answer 6: Now that Kamala Harris is President, today, January 20th, 2029, you fix Congress by replacing her role as tie-breaker in the House with someone else who cares as much about the Environment. 2)Canada, British Columbia. In a bold move, BC Greens argue that breathing clean air is good for you. April 24, 2024. The Newsroom. RAWSEP View: This article does not make clear if regulation of indoor residential wood burning is part of this plan by the Greens of British C

Episode 56TN April 30, 2024. Publicize individual clean air behavior as the norm. In Episode 56TN, 1) Publicize individual clean air behavior as the norm. 2)Canada, British Columbia Wood Smoke on Facebook, 04/29/2024. 3)United Kingdom, East Lancashire. People with wood burning stoves across East Lancashire urged to clear the air. 4)United Kingdom. Lancet. PM2.5 and diabetes. 5)Michigan, Detroit. Air Quality in Detroit: A Reflection of Environmental Injustice and Climate Change Impact. 6)New York. Controlled Burn in Central New York Could Cause Smoky Skies. 7)Canada, British Columbia, Cowichan Valley. Valley Citizen. CVRD wood smoke reduction rebate program back for 2024. Apr 24, 2024. 8)China. Amplified positive effects on air quality, health, and renewable energy under China's carbon. 9)India. Wind & Solar, But What Else? — India Edition Transcript - CleanTechnica smoke from a dead tree. The amount of toxins that come out in wood smoke is remarkable. 10)Taiwan, PM2.5 and decreased lung function. Joint effect of long-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the prevalence of chronic. 11)PM2.5 and asthma. 12)PM2.5 and autoimmune disease. 1)Publicize individual clean air behavior as the norm. https://seetheair.org/2024/04/25/hacking-the-herd-how-social-norms-can-inspire-you-and-everyone-else-to-change/?fbclid= Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. . Hacking the Herd: Norms Can Inspire You (and Everyone Else) to Change April 25, 2024. Norms are a tool for behavior change. Leverage the Desire to Belong. Focus on Prevalence. Emphasize that the desired behavior is more common than people think. This can counteract the feeling of being alone. Positive Reinforcement, Seeing others engage in the positive behavior encourages a sense of community around the change. Norms applied to air pollution: Highlight Clean Air Choices. Campaigns can showcase people making choices that clean the air. This reframes these actions as the norm, making them more likely to be adopted. Community Recognition, Programs that recognize individuals for their efforts to reduce air pollution can create positive social pressure. Highlighting the collective impact of small changes, they can motivate people to take action. For example, a campaign might feature a slogan like “Most people in our community use heat pumps! Join the Movement for Cleaner Air!” By framing clean air behaviors as the norm, we can improve air quality for everyone. 2)Canada, British Columbia Wood Smoke on Facebook, 04/29/2024. Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Air pollution from "home firewood burning" (for heat) is responsible for far more early death than air pollution from any other sector reviewed in a recent Health Canada report (even though wood heating only occurs for about half of the year and is used by a minority of homes). (This is not so on Salt Spring Island where we are surrounded day and night by this aberrant, archaic "solution" to home heat, nearly year-round, if one adds in the wildfires.) In addition to premature mortality, this source of pollution was also found to be responsible for a range of other costly health impacts: "Non-fatal health outcomes attributed to home firewood burning included: 1,300 cardiac and respiratory-related hospital admissions and emergency room visits; 9,300 child and 2,100 adult chronic bronchitis cases; 2.9 million (Million) restricted activity days; and 5.9 Million symptom days (including acute respiratory and asthma symptom days)." All smoke is harmful to our health. https://publications.gc.ca/ /sc-hc/H144-112-2022-eng.pdf So with regards to "solutions for yard burning "( and home wood heat) start by banning it completely, citing the above reasons, plus climate warming acceleration from PM2.5, No

Episode 56TM April 29, 2024. American Lung Association State of the Air, PM2.5 statistics. In Episode 56TM, American Lung Association (annual) State of the Air, PM2.5 statistics. 1)By Municipality, 1a)Worst Air, and 1b)Best Air. 1st column is by year round particle pollution, column 2 is by short term particle pollution. 2)By State, Worst to Best, see ALA website for this information on their United States Map. 3)For Wisconsin as an example, 27 out of 72 Counties compared. Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities Select on a city name to view the rankings for your city, a chart of the trends for ozone and year-round particle levels over time, and information about how many residents are in each of the groups most at risk from air pollution. Note that some cities rank high on one list and don’t show up on other lists because of the differences in their pollution problems. Each city includes all the counties that form the economic and transportation network that makes up the metropolitan area as defined by the federal government. 1a)Municipality List of Worst By Year Round Particle Pollution By Short-Term Particle Pollution #1: Bakersfield, CA #2: Visalia, CA #3: Fresno-Madera-Hanford, CA #4: Eugene-Springfield, OR #5: San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA #6: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA #7: Sacramento-Roseville, CA #8: Medford-Grants Pass, OR #9: Phoenix-Mesa, AZ #10: Fairbanks, AK #11: Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN #12: Yakima, WA #13: Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor, MI #14: Chico, CA #16: Houston-The Woodlands, TX #17: El Centro, CA #18: Reno-Carson City-Fernley, NV #19: Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV #20: Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS #20: Las Vegas-Henderson, NV #22: Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI #22: Cincinnati-Wilmington-Maysville, OH-KY-IN #24: Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC #25: Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice, TX #25: Oklahoma City-Shawnee, OK #1: Bakersfield, CA #2: Fresno-Madera-Hanford, CA #3: Fairbanks, AK #4: Eugene-Springfield, OR #5: Visalia, CA #6: Reno-Carson City-Fernley, NV #7: San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA #8: Redding-Red Bluff, CA #9: Sacramento-Roseville, CA #10: Chico, CA #11: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA #12: Yakima, WA #13: Seattle-Tacoma, WA #14: Missoula, MT #16: Phoenix-Mesa, AZ #17: Boise City-Mountain Home-Ontario, ID-OR #18: San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA #19: Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT #20: Denver-Aurora, CO #21: Logan, UT-ID #21: Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA #23: Las Vegas-Henderson, NV #24: Fargo-Wahpeton, ND-MN #24: Salinas, CA The cities on the lists of the cleanest for ozone and short-term particle pollution are not ranked because all the cities earned the same scores. The cities on the list of the cleanest for year-round particle pollution levels are ranked by their average levels of particles, as calculated by EPA. Note that some cities are clean for one category but not for others. 1b)Municipality Best to Worst.Top 25 Cleanest U.S. Cities by Year-round Particle Pollution Cleanest U.S. Cities by Short-term Particle Pollution #1: Urban Honolulu, HI #2: Casper, WY #3: Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI #4: Wilmington, NC #5: Bangor, ME #6: Cheyenne, WY #7: Duluth, MN-WI #8: Colorado Springs, CO #9: Anchorage, AK #9: St. George, UT #11: Elmira-Corning, NY #12: Asheville-Marion-Brevard, NC #12: Grand Junction, CO #12: Lubbock-Plainview-Levelland, TX #12: Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI #16: Amarillo-Pampa-Borger, TX #16: Lynchburg, VA #16: Salisbury-Cambridge, MD-DE #19: Rochester-Austin, MN #20: Greenville-Kinston-Washington, NC #20: Syracuse-Auburn, NY #22: Grand Island, NE #23: Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH #23: Lincoln-Beatrice, NE Asheville-Marion-Brevard, NC Bangor, ME Bloomington-Bedford, IN Burlington-Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO Cape Coral-Fort Myers-Naples, FL Champaign-Urbana,

Episode 56TL April 29, 2024. If next to indoor residential wood burning, solar panel efficiency can be cut by half. In Episode 56TL 1)Wisconsin. 4/22/2024 Wisconsin Governor announces Federal grants for solar energy for low income households, available by 2025. The catch? Hyper-localization next to indoor residential wood burning can cut down solar panel efficiency by half. 2)United States.RAWSEP View: the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air, air pollution rankings across America. Best and worst air in the US: Report ranks pollution in cities, metros. 3)Arizona. RAWSEP View: The new air pollution standard is 9 micrograms per cubic meter PM2.5 in a 24 hour period. Arizona GOP leaders, Chamber sue EPA over new air pollution standard. 4)California, El Dorado Hills. Fireplace sparks house fire. villagelife.com 7)California, Oceanside Beach. Alphabetical by article title. Wooden pier fire. Crews battle fire threatening longest wooden pier on US west coast. 8)California, Seal Beach.Wooden pier fire. Seal Beach pier fire strangely similar to Oceanside pier blaze. 9)New Jersey, Wayne. Modern Tech helps Wayne's Volunteer Firefighters Find a Fire 'Hidden' in the Walls of A. 10)Oregon, Eugene. Eugene-Springfield takes fourth worst spot in national air pollution ranking. 11)Pennsylvania, Delaware County. RAWSEP View: Pollutants, among them wood fire smoke became trapped. Experts Figure Out Why There Was a Strange Odor in Delaware County Last Week. 12)Canada, Alberta. What you need to know to stay up-to-date on Alberta wildfires. 13)Canada, British Columbia, Cowichan Valley, Richmond. Cowichan Valley Citizen. CVRD wood smoke reduction rebate program back for 2024. 4/26/2024. 14)Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver. CVRD wood smoke reduction rebate program back for 2024. 15)European Union. Smoked sausage makers considering alternatives for smoke aroma due to possible EU ban. 16)China. Investigation of a haze-to-dust and dust swing process at a coastal city in northern China part II. 17)Indonesia, Jakarta. Jakarta's Air Quality This Morning Worst Order 10th In The World, (PM 2.5) 18)PM2.5 and bioaerosol bacteria and fungi. 19)PM2.5 and cardiovascular disese. 1)Wisconsin. 4/22/2024 Wisconsin Governor announces Federal grants for solar energy for low income households, available by 2025. The catch? Hyper-localization next to indoor residential wood burning can cut down solar panel efficiency by half. This is based on the observed effect of the Canadian wildfire incursion into New York State in June 2023. A New York statewide solar panel network reported loss of 50% of efficiency across the statewide solar panel network during the wildfire incursion. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/24/wisconsin-receives-62-4m-solar-energy-grant-for-low-income-households/73426709007/ Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Here's what to know about the grant. What is the source of the grant funding? President Joe Biden on Monday announced that the Environmental Protection Agency would distribute $7 billion in grants through its "Solar for All" grant competition, a component of the federal Inflation Reduction Act's $27 billion "Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund." Wisconsin is among 60 states, territories, Tribal governments, municipalities and nonprofits to receive the federal grant money. According to the White House, the program will bring solar power to more than 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities. How did Wisconsin secure its grant? In its application for the grant, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation said the solar installation would help prevent nearly 2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions from harming the state's environment annually. 2)United States.RAWSEP View: the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air, air pollution rankings

Episode 56TK April 27, 2024. Debate and delay around partial wood stove ban called for in Scotland. In Episode 56TK 1)Scotland. Wood stove ban in new construction. This article calls for debate and delay to a life saving measure, which should be a first step toward ban of all indoor residential wood burning in Scotland, for the benefit of everyone. RAWSEP View: A lifeline is never logically defined as a device that statistically will increase your chance of early death. 2)United Kingdom. Protest at Drax meeting. 3)New York, New York City. Pizzerias to receive half a million dollars to help switch to cleaner wood burning or no wood burning. 4)World. 20 Countries that Produce the Most Pollution in the World - Yahoo Finance. 5)World. 20 Cities with the Cleanest Air in the World - Yahoo Finance. 6)California, Oceanside. Firefighters battling massive fire on historic wooden pier in California. 7)Illinois, Springfield. Air quality in Springfield, Illinois is getting worse, new report finds. 8)Montana, Missoula. Data: Industrial plant in Missoula emits hundreds of tons of air pollutants each year. 9)Australia, New South Wales. Armidale. Local regulations aim to bank the home fires. 10)Korea. A Wall of Dust Over the Korean Peninsula - NASA Earth Observatory. 11)PM2.5 and cardiovascular effects. 12)PM2.5 and chemical characterization. 13)PM2.5 and erythrocytes. 14)PM2.5 and haze prediction. 15)PM2.5 and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy. 16)PM2.5 and satellite estimates. 1)Scotland. Wood stove ban in new construction. This article calls for debate and delay to a life saving measure, which should be a first step toward ban of all indoor residential wood burning in Scotland, for the benefit of everyone. RAWSEP View: A lifeline is never logically defined as a device that statistically will increase your chance of early death. Wood burning will increase your chance of early death, so it is not a lifeline, as some wood burners would like to believe, perhaps based on the debunked fallacy of Carbon Neutrality of Wood Burning. Wood burning is 90% PM2.5, particulate matter of 2.5 micrometer size, the perfect size to infiltrate the human lung, setting off a cascade of human health problems and early deaths. Those facts about the ill health effects of wood burning cannot be debated away. What is debatable is whether the toastiness of wood fires that often results in toasted skin syndrome as the family members, who you are exposing a pollutant to, huddle around a wood burning fire, is worth risking your familie’s lives to asthma, lung cancer and many other types of cancer, not to mention incrasing the risk of disease and early death to your near neighbors. There are cheaper and clean alternatives to indoor residential wood burning in 2024, such as government subsidies of Heat Pumps that now work down to 40 degrees below zero. MSP seeks Holyrood debate on controversial 'woodstove ban' - Oban Times Wood-burning stoves are an "emergency lifeline" and not a "luxury item", says a Highlands and Islands MSP calling for a Holyrood debate on a. 2)United Kingdom. Protest at Drax meeting. Chris Packham leads protests against Drax over environmental 'destruction' - Yahoo The company receives money funded by energy bill payers because the electricity produced from burning wood pellets is classified as renewable. Stop subsidizing Drax's forest destruction, environmental injustices, and climate - StreetInsider Drax sources much of the wood burned at its giant power station in North Yorkshire, England , from the American South, where wood pellet plants are. 3)New York, New York City. Pizzerias to receive half a million dollars to help switch to cleaner wood burning or no wood burning. $500000 Available in Grants for NYC Restaurants to Upgrade Equipment and Lower - Grubhub wood-burning ovens, that will help lower carbon emissions. Knowing that these updates can be costly for restaurants, this grant aims to alleviate. 4)World. 20 Countries that Prod

Episode 56TJ April 26, 2024. British Columbia mom to hand out PM2.5 monitors after child’s wildfire death. In Episode 56TJ 1)Canada, British Colubmia (BC) mom finds purpose in air quality awareness efforts in wake of tragedy. 2)Canada, British Columbia (BC) wildfire season arrives with growing bans and 115 fires already burning 3)Canada, British Columbia, Williams Lake. Demand for wood pellets fueling B.C. forest loss, report claims. 4)United Kingdom, Drax wood burning power plant protest at shareholder meeting. 5)United Kingdom’s Drax Wood burning power plant protested in Washington DC by the Dogwood Alliance. Stop subsidizing Drax's forest destruction, environmental injustices, and climate damage. 6)European Union. EU bans harmful artificial smoke flavourings for food - DutchNews.nl 7)France. Property owners have lost some insurance rights for their heat pumps! Could anything in France be worse? RAWSEP notes that wood burning stoves are not eco friendly, but wood burning stoves are incorrectly described as eco friendly in this French article. The problem in France may be incorrectly lumping safe Heat Pumps with dangerous to install and operate wood burning stoves. 8)France, Paris. You know things are going wrong when the blades fall off the Moulin Rouge windmill in Paris, cutting the efficiency of its wind power by at least 50%. 9)Poland, PM2.5 and heart attack risk. 10)Italy. Environmental Association Legambiente Fights Against Italy's Air Pollution. 11)Indonesia, Jakarta. Jakarta's Worst Air Quality In The World Don't Be A Gift For The 495th Jakarta Anniversary. 12)United States. Nearly 131 Million people in US exposed to ozone and particle pollution, new report reveals. 13)Minnesota, Saint Louis County. Fire causes minor damage. 14)Pennsylvania, Delaware County. Burning Odor in Delaware County Returns. 15)PM2.5 and microglial cells. 16)PM2.5 and a universal air quality index. RAWSEP View: We need to get small, “Let’s get small” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPgurvq6MIU as Steve Martin used to say, and hyperlocal, and see what is in our own backyards. Why we should have a universal air quality index? - ScienceDirect.com 1)Canada, British Columbia. British Columbia mom to hand out PM2.5 monitors after child’s wildfire death. RAWSEP View: This story shows the need for more PM2.5 monitors and more hyperlocalized PM2.5 monitors to warn of hazardous levels of wood smoke pollution. This article does not mention indoor residential wood burning as a source of PM2.5 pollution, but all wood burning pollution is the same, whether it is wildfire smoke, indoor residential wood burning smoke or industrial (wood burning) biomass smoke. This article also mentions the need for “clean air shelters” with air purifiers running, for respite from wood smoke. Clean air shelters could be what near neighbors of indoor residential wood burners call their own homes if they are well sealed and have multiple air purifiers running. That is no way to live, in a sealed home and with air purifiers always running, wearing personal protective equipment even in good weather, and not being able to exercise outdoors safely because of indoor residential wood smoke entering the near neighbor’s yards and sickening them. Wood smoke also reduces the efficiency of nearby solar panels by 50%, discouraging use of a clean residential energy alternative, along with wind powering Heat Pumps that work down to 40 degrees below zero in 2024, which have government rebates in 2024. This British Columbia mom is bravely trying to help others in her community, and hopefully around the whole country of Canada. In the article CAPE’s president says “But we also have to put out the fire at its source and prevent the smoke from getting worse by reducing our use of fossil fuels,” RAWSEP’s editor would like to add “We also have to put out wood burning at its source and prevent the wood smoke from getting worse by shutting down every indoor residential wood burning appli

Episode 56Ti April 25, 2024. Wisconsin Home Insulation rebates released now! (Fall Heat Pump rebates) Email from Green Homeowners United. Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Dear friends, those that have supported us in encouraging the Inflation Reduction Act rebates to be available now, and that the residential energy efficiency improvements are made more affordable for working families, we have great news for you! Today, the Wisconsin Public Service Commission made a very thoughtful and proactive step to help residents regardless of income fight climate change at home. Just some of the decisions they made today: The $74 million IRA rebates for home insulation* improvements will now be increased to between $2,000-$10,000 for a home based on the result of an energy assessment, with lower income households eligible for between $5,000-$10,000 The IRA rebates will be available NOW, with those perform projects between now and the official start of the formal rebate program administered by Focus on Energy receiving them retroactively later in the year. Now homeowners won't worry about moving too soon to upgrade and whether that will qualify or not Lower income households, depending on the situations in their homes, may be able to receive insulation improvements at effectively no cost! The future down the line "heat pump rebates" will be eligible Wisconsinites regardless of whether they heat their home with natural gas, propane, fuel oil or electric heat. This other rebate program will not be retroactive, and is expected in Fall. This is very important, and we thank all the organizations** that joined us in working to encourage the state to make these rebates available asap so we can help homeowners NOW. And especially to the over 250 people who joined us in a combined public comment urging the very steps the PSC took. Thank you WI Public Service Commissioners! In Other News. That's not all the Public Service Commission did recently. The PSC also approved a series of grants, including two grant programs that Green Homeowners United will get to partner with organizations. Thanks to their EIGP grant, Green Homeowners United will be working on even more low-income senior & people with disabilities homes in Milwaukee, together with Revitalize Milwaukee, and launching a new project with union boots-on-the-ground in the City of La Crosse! We will help low income homeowners in Greater Milwaukee and City of La Crosse residents especially get first in line for the $149 million in residential IRA rebates for Wisconsin. Want us to help your region of Wisconsin, regardless of your income? Send us a message and we'll see what we can do! Next Steps: The first thing you can do if you want to access these IRA energy funds is to get an energy assessment of your home! Our energy assessments will now count for the new rebates (not every assessor's will), and will specifically unlock these funds for the home by showing you how to achieve a 20%+ reduction on household energy use. If you want to help get the word out to others in your area, invite us to speak - in person or by Zoom - to your next meeting/ event/ get-together and we can spread the word together! Helping Low-Income at No Cost In the coming weeks, expect to hear more from us at Green Homeowners United how we will be able to help many of those who earn below 80% of the median income access insulation and sealing air leaks at effectively no cost to them, or low cost in some circumstances if they want to go above and beyond. We have been very closely monitoring this program and identifying how to help lower-income residents access these home energy improvement funds. For many, it will be at no cost to them! Insulation - the IRA's HOMES rebate can cover more than insulation, however during this "retroactive" period projects need to include a focus generally on insulation,

Episode 56 TH April 25, 2024. Japan, Canada & UK’s wood burning matrix worries about enough wood for burning. In Episode 56 TH, 1a)Canada supply and Japan demand for wood pellets. Another explanation of the scientifically debunked theory of Carbon Neutrality of Wood Burning, this time from Drax, one of the largest wood burning plants in the world, 1b)Canada, British Columbia, and a Japanese Earthquake’s effects on British Columbia’s forest future. 2)Oregon, Bend and River West. Please clean debris to prevent human caused wildfire spread. 3)United States. Government Email and register for 4/26/2024 meeting about Earth Day. 4)World. Word Geniuses. 5)United States. One third of population exposed to harmful air pollution. 6)California, Palm Springs. (7 to 10)Colorado prescribed burns. 11)New Jersey, County grades on air quality. 12)Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver Island. RAWSEP disagrees with the view that keeping wood stoves as backup will help the community and allow air quality to improve. 13)Canada, British Columbia, Grande Prairie. Prescribed burn. 14)United Kingdom, Birmingham. Like cigarettes, wood smoke contains fine particles, dioxins, formaldehyde, mercury, arsenic and benzene. 15)India. The rich have higher carbon footprints. 16)Taiwan. Criticism of coal as a complement to green energy. 1a)Canada supply and Japan demand for wood pellets. Another explanation of the scientifically debunked theory of Carbon Neutrality of Wood Burning, this time from Drax, one of the largest wood burning plants in the world, From the article below: The Drax factor. The company operates a massive thermal electricity plant in North Yorkshire, England, that burns approximately 6.5 million tonnes of wood pellets annually and, because of all that wood-burning, generates more than 12 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, making Drax’s power plant the single largest point source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United Kingdom. Both the company and the U.K. government that heavily subsidizes Drax say, however, that those emissions don’t count because eventually all the CO2 released burning that wood is “offset” as newly planted trees sequester atmospheric carbon. It’s an assertion that is dismissed by numerous scientists who argue that burning wood actually generates more CO2 emissions than burning coal and that the emissions associated with burning wood are not quickly or effectively countered by planting more trees. Drax has also drawn critical coverage both at home and abroad for the impact that its operations have on forests in North America, including primary forests in Canada. RAWSEP View: the air pollution from Canada’s wildfires is addressed in the paragraph above taken from the article below. This article from Canada is specifically concerned about the ability of Canada to continue to supply wood pellets to Japan. RAWSEP is concerned that Japan is not turning to clean energy such as using the hydropower unused from its numerous hot springs, not to mention wind and solar power. 1b)Canada, British Columbia, and a Japanese Earthquake’s effects on British Columbia’s forest future. How a Japanese Earthquake Shook BC's Forest Future | The Tyee Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. More wildfires burning will likely result in reduced timber supply. BC Wildfire Service. At the Japanese city of Sendai, the new thermal electricity plant is one of several in Japan that burns biomass to generate electricity, in this case enough to supply 17,000 homes. Renova’s biomass comes in one of two forms: wood pellets made from felled trees, and palm kernel shells, the waste left over after processing palm oil. In Japan on March 11, 2011. one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded triggered a tsunami that devastated large swaths of Japan’s low-lying Pacific Coast, killing 20,000 people and destroying or badly dam

https://www.youtube.com/@rawsepresidents4370/videos & search for Talk Show. Hear RAWSEP Spotify podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/32hfC477jEeeDbQoTsu82l email rawsepresidents@gmail.com website https://rawsepresidents.com/ September 2024 Heat Pump rebate through Focus on Energy information (up to $8,000 using a sliding income scale) Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Aims in 2024: 1)Hand out PurpleAir PM2.5 monitors to any near neighbor of an indoor residential wood burner whose wood smoke infiltrates the yard of the near neighbor & sickens them. 2)Pass laws (local ordinances, state laws or federal laws) to use the data downloaded from the PurpleAir Map for their monitor as evidence to shut down each pollluting indoor residential wood burning appliance, one appliance at a time if necessary. The threshold of pollution could be the Environmental Protection Agency National Ambient Air Quality standards (EPA NAAQS) of "safe" limits of PM2.5, which in 2024 are 9 micrograms per cubic meter annually & 35 micrograms per cubic meter in a 24 hour period. The World Health Organization (W H O) standard is 5 micrograms per cubic meter annually, & that could alternatively be the standard used for shutting down a polluting indoor residential wood burner. 3)RAWSEP as an organization is writing a grant to hand out subsidies to any indoor residential wood burner who turns in all his or her wood burning appliances at the residence in return for a Heat Pump that works down to 40 degrees below zero (the Fahrenheit & Centigrade temperature scales briefly converge at 40 degrees below zero). This grant is being written with help of Expert Match at the United States Department of Energy. Wood smoke is 90% PM2.5, particulate matter of 2.5 micrometer size, the perfect size to infiltrate the human lung, setting off a cascade of human health problems & early deaths. Wood burning emits 2.8 times the CO2 & PM2.5 as the fossil fuel coal burning emits. Wood burning emits 450 times the PM2.5 as the fossil fuel natural gas burning emits. https://www.youtube.com/@rawsepresidents4370/videos & search for Talk Show. Hear RAWSEP Spotify podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/32hfC477jEeeDbQoTsu82l email rawsepresidents@gmail.com website https://rawsepresidents.com/ September 2024 Heat Pump rebate through Focus on Energy information (up to $8,000 based on a sliding income scale) & RAWSEPresidents games, PDFs, PurpleAir PM2.5 charts, & a blog. Recently, countries around the world have replaced coal burning power plants with wood burning (renamed biomass) plants, in order to meet their climate goals of reducing CO2 emissions on paper. This is false accounting of reduction of emissions, since, to meet Climate Goals, wood burning emissions are not counted at all. Countries worldwide are meeting their Climate Goals by not counting wood burning emissions, so in reality these countries are emitting more CO2 & PM2.5 than they had with coal burning, but their false accounting on paper shows reductions & shows them closer to meeting their Climate Goals. In reality, they are farther from slowing climate change by burning wood (renamed biomass). The false theory of Carbon Neutrality of Wood Burning has been denounced by hundreds of scientists in letters to the United States Congress & the European Parliament since 2019, asking them to count wood burning emissions in their Climate Goals. The debunked theory of Carbon Neutrality of Wood Burning posits that since you can plant a tree in place of a felled tree, eventually the replacement tree will absorb carbon dioxide, & emit oxygen for the benefit of the planet. Planting trees is nice but a replacement tree takes decades or centuries to grow to the size of the felled tree, & in the meantime, the burning of trees emits CO2 & PM2.5, & PM2.5 is not absorbed by trees. When you exercise outdoors, in the presence of wood smoke, the healthy effects of exercise are negated

Episode 56TG April 24, 2024. Scotland’s Air in Real Life (IRL) is currently defeated by wood stove pollution. In Episode 56TG, Scotland’s Air in Real Life (IRL) is currently defeated by wood stove pollution. 1) Scotland Made Big Climate Pledges. Now They’re ‘Out of Reach.’ RAWSEP View: Banning wood burning, not just in new construction, but everywhere in Scotland could go a big way to meeting Scotland’s Climate Goals, to start with. Despite significant progress, Scotland was falling short on cutting vehicle emissions, switching to heat pumps and even restoring peatland, the government said. In 2021, Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, called the country’s climate targets “amongst the toughest” in the world. April 19, 2024. 2)A song called MacPherson's Lament is subtitled (A Scottish Air). “Macpherson’s Lament” is a well known Scottish tune thought to have been composed by legendary fiddler, Jamie MacPherson, on the night before his execution in 1700. Orchestral Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz1ihu0-by8 3)What does air mean in music? Air (music). 4)California. RAWSEP View: Wood (renamed biomass) can be composted into usable soil, rather than burning wood chips for no good reason and creating air pollution when clean alternatives to wood burning for energy, wind and solar, are cheaper and don’t cause air pollution. 5)Minnesota, Saint Cloud and Sauk Rapids Fire Department. Man dies from fire caused by outdoor wood burning stove. 6)Montana, Helena, Priest Pass. Human caused fire. 7)New York, New York City. Pizzerias’ wood burning rule will cut smoke pollutants by 75%. 8)Oklahoma, Fitzhugh County. Allowable wood burning (waste burning) policy is reviewed after Transfer station fire. 9)Canada, Alberta, Athabasca. (wood) Fire ban. Evacuation alerts. 10)Canada, British Columbia, Okanagan. Open (wood) burning permits end 4/30/2024. 11)Australia. Canberra. Wood heat industry and ill health. 12)Scotland. RAWSEP View: RAWSEP agrees with the sentiment that we need actions, banning wood burning, to tackle climate change. The source of the wood, (artistic “sourcing”) that is burned is immaterial, all wood burning pollutes the air. Erica Munro, in real life (I R L) wood smoke itself from wood burning is the smokescreen. The solution of stopping wood burning to stop pollution is the opposite of a smokescreen. Ironic, isnt’ it? and hopefully your ironic and foolish words will not be heeded. Wood burning in real life, I R L, causes unnecessary air pollution in Scotland. If there is fuel poverty that forces poor people to burn wood and cost their near neighbors adverse health problems and early deaths, that poverty can be alleviated by the government, if such poverty exists in real life (I R L) that forces air pollution on the world. 13)United Kingdom. Unnecessary and polluting Wood Burning PM2.5 at, of all places, an electric car dealership. Can the car dealer claim fuel poverty? 14)United Kingdom. Calls to ban wood-burning stoves in UK by 2027. 15)Uzbekistan. Expert attributes air pollution in Uzbekistan to anthropogenic factors. 16)India. 17)Laos. 18)PM2.5 and colorectal cancer. 19)PM2.5 and Covid 19. 20)PM2.5 and Earth Day. 21)PM2.5 and invisible killer. 22)PM2.5 and males. 23)PM2.5 and public health. 24)PM2.5 and two stage air pollution. 25) April 23, 2024. RAWSEP’s 3 minute Comment to NEJAC at the Public Hearing. 1) Scotland Made Big Climate Pledges. Now They’re ‘Out of Reach.’ RAWSEP View: Banning wood burning, not just in new construction, but everywhere in Scotland could go a big way to meeting Scotland’s Climate Goals, to start with. From the article: The problem is, that’s not fast enough to be on track with the government’s targets. The committee said that while the electricity sector had reduced emissions (Scotland has a lot of wind power), Scotland wasn’t on track on reducing emissions from other sectors. It had failed to make sufficient progress on installing heat pumps to replace natural gas in

Episode 56TF April 22, 2024. What should individuals who know the source of air pollution do with air quality data? In Episode 56TF 1)World. PM2.5 causes cancellation of sporting events and flights. 2)World.RAWSEP View: This article is about the W H O redefining their “airborne disease” definition (which includes airborne PM2.5 in RAWSEP’s opinion), with the 2024 approval of engineers as well as scientists, two parties who disagreed in the past. This will allow more stringent measures to be taken to control airborne disease, than was done in the past. In the past, COVID era protective actions up to stringent measures such as mask wearing and lockdowns, were delayed because of disagreement between scientists and engineers. No. Despite the title of the article, the W H O is not further tightening PM2.5 “safe” levels below even 5 micrograms per cubic meter annually. 3)United States. The traditionally reactionary John Birch Society sponsored this opinion piece saying that lowering PM2.5 “safe” levels to 9 micrograms per cubic meter annually is radical. RAWSEP View: Ignoring the health effects of PM2.5 pollution ensures continuing adverse health problems and early deaths. RAWSEP believes that if states are out of compliance they need to work to get into compliance, to protect human health. The World Bank Our Common Air ancillary group argued last week that clean air is a financial asset, and should be viewed and treated as a financial asset. 4)United States. RAWSEP View: For whom is wood burning unsafe? Near neighbors. This article is about the choice of wood burning, made without thought about the health effects to near neighbors. 5)Arizona. 6)California, Coronado. RAWSEP View: A step backward for clean air. 7)California. PM2.5 and preterm birth. 8)Colorado, Boulder, Gross Reservoir. 9)Colorado, Boulder, Banner Lakes. 10)Colorado. RAWSEP View: “Love my Air” PurpleAir PM2.5 monitors at public schools are a good thing as an educational device, but do not detect most hyperlocal indoor residential wood burning as well as monitors hyperlocally located in the yards of near neighbors. PurpleAir PM2.5 monitors are low cost and easy to use. PurpleAir PM2.5 monitors which use a laser to count the number of particulate that pass before the laser, are put on United States AirNow Maps of Smoke and fire alongside $100,000 United States Environmental Protection Agency (U S E P A) PM2.5 monitors that weigh PM2.5 particulates, and both inform the public of air pollution levels during a wildfire incursion such as the one from Canada in June 2023, for example. In a hyperlocalized setting PurpleAir PM2.5 monitors also accurately measure PM2.5 levels invading a near neighbor’s yard from nearby indoor residential wood burning, accurately identifying the source of the pollution.This is a win win solution to an air pollution problem that causes health problems and early deaths. An additional layer of bureaucracy should not have to be imposed in order for a near neighbor to complain of wood smoke from an indoor residential wood burner infiltrating the yard of a near neighbor and sickening them, using evidence of harm from a data download from a PurpleAir PM2.5 monitor map showing PM2.5 levels that exceed United States Environmental Protection Agency National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US EPA NAAQS) or other air quality standards such as the World Health Organization’s annual PM2.5 “safe” limit of 5 micrograms per cubic meter. An intermediary called a network or government organization should not be needed, except to verify the data download as accurate, if individuals who know the source of air pollution have the air quality data to prove the source of pollution is a nearby indoor residential wood burner.

Episode 56TD April 18, 2024. April 23 to 25, 2024 Environmental Justice NEJAC meetings, register here. In Episode 56TD 1)On Friday 4/19/2024 at 1PM CST President Biden and Vice President Harris talk Cancer Alley air pollution regulation just signed into law. Registration Link: https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_LIM8E2vvSnmLxx_OhVI0xw 2)EPA: National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) Meetings. Date: April 23-25, 2024. Summary: The NEJAC will convene a hybrid in-person public meeting with a virtual option. The public meeting will start on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at approximately 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Central. Time. The NEJAC meeting continues Wednesday, April 24, 2024, from approximately 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. through Thursday, April 25, 2024, from approximately 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Central Time. The meeting discussions will focus on several topics including, but not limited to, workgroup updates, final recommendations for council consideration, presentations, panels, and discussions on potential charges with various EPA national program offices. Registration Link: https://usepa.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_XCcn6m9MRLayKStwN9Hr2w#/registration Note; RAWSEP’s editor has registered to speak at the meeting about Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 organization, including RAWSEP efforts to hand out PurpleAir PM2.5 monitors to any near neighbor of an indoor residential wood burner whose smoke infiltrates the near neighbor’s yard and sickens them, and efforts to write a grant to provide a subsidy for a Heat Pump to any wood stove owner who trades in all their wood burning appliances for a Heat Pump. This RAWSEP subsidy would be in addition to the Federal State (Focus on Energy in Wisconsin) up to $8,000 Heat Pump rebates based on a sliding income scale, available to any United States resident starting by September 2024. 3)The organization called Global Action Plan wants examples of Misinformation about Particulate Pollution. RAWSEP’s editor has plenty of pollution misinformation to point out from the wood stove industry. You can share your screenshots to Global Action Plan by email to safersocials@globalactionplan.org.uk or using WhatsApp to 020 4534 3913 4)REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION AND PROPOSALS. 4A)OMB seeks input on the experiences of individuals and organizations. 4B)Department of Health and Human Services: Environmental Justice Community Innovator Challenge. 4C)U S Department of Agriculture (USDA): Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). 5)RAWSEP View: The Forestry.com website is probably the place to start to collect examples of misinformation about climate change to send to Global Health Plan. 5)RAWSEP View: The Forestry.com website is probably the place to start to collect examples of misinformation about climate change to send to Global Health Plan. 6)Arizona. Arizona issues high-pollution advisory for Wednesday. 7)California, Cowichan Valley. RAWSEP View: This citizen’s letter to the editor from 2017 states that burning wood for home heating should not be regulated because burning wood is better than burning garbage. This is not enough reason to burn wood, in RAWSEP’s opinion. Hopefully this 2017 letter to the editor is a period piece, outdated by progress in educating the public on the adverse health effects of burning wood. 8) Costs of Air Pollution in California's San Joaquin Valley | JAA - Dove Medical Press. 9)Colorado, Pagosa Springs. Help your health during the upcoming prescribed burns. 10)Georgia, Savannah. UN health agency sets higher, tougher bar for air quality Fox 28 Savannah. 11)Nevada, Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe Spring Prescribed Fire Operations continue. 12)New York, Peru. Editorial: Burn ban on. 13)North Dakota, Grand Forks. MOE discontinues air quality advisory for Grand Forks. 14)Oregon, Portland. Large fire burning in debris pile at wood recycling plant in St. Johns neighborhood. 15)Washington. Washington State University institutes

Episode 56TC April 17, 2024. Scotland bans of fox hunting and some wood burning linked in minds of the affluent. In Episode 56TC 1A1)United States. EPA Finalizes Tougher Air Quality Standards to Protect Against Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter. 1A2)United States. Wood burning emissions increase the cancer and health risks of polycyclic aromatics. 1B1)United Kingdom, Scotland. Scotland bans of fox hunting and some wood burning linked in minds of the affluent. 1B2)United Kingdom, Scotland. Comhairie wood stove ban in new construction. 1B3)United Kingdom, Scotland. Rural wood stove ban in new construction. 1B4)United Kingdom, Scotland. Subsidies to install wood stoves exist alongside wood stove ban in new construction. This causes confusion. The clarity that RAWSEP would like would be for the wood stove ban to supercede subsidies, and any wood stove subsidies for installation of wood stoves in Scotland immediately cease. Those who have no concern for the prroblem of air pollution that shortens the lives or kills the near neighbors of indoor residential wood burners would like subsidies for wood stoves to supercede any attempt at mitigation of the effect of indoor wood burning, such ss a weak ban on only wood stoves in new construction. 1B5)United Kingdom, Scotland. This Letter to the Editor is reminiscent of the protests of parents of public school children in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, protesting that their children either had to stay at home in lockdown or their children had to wear masks to school. The indoctrination of children in the United States was to the concept of scientific and medical knowledge that COVID 19 was airborne and before a COVID vaccine was available, lockdowns should occur until it was known exactly how the virus was spread and later the scientific and medical knowledge was indoctrinated into children that they should wear masks to prevent spread of the disease at least until a fair amount of the populace was vaccinated. This United States government indoctrination saved lives when scientists and doctors were listened to, and people who were intelligently indoctrinated stayed in lockdown or wore masks, and those simple and easy actions of indoctrinated people saved lives. Those who remained unindoctrinated cost many people their lives unnecessarily, when the knowledge of how to save the people who died unnecessarily was presented to the public by scientists and doctors. 1B6)United Kingdom, Scotland. Western Isles. Scotland bans of fox hunting and some wood burning linked in minds of the affluent. 1C1)United Kingdom, London. Prime Ministrer Rishi Sunak makes a bid to make it impossible for young people to ever smoke. Apparently the tobacco industry, represented by some United Kingdom ministers, is outraged. This ban on cigarette smoking is linked in the minds of the rural affluent with a wood burning stove ban. 1C2)United Kingdom, South Gloucestershire. A $300 fine can be levied on residents who inappropriately burn wood. 1C3)United Kingdom, Oxford. every breath you take, air pollution impacts your cardiovascular health. 1D1)Australia, Victoria. Careless Burning Off Could Be Burning Money. 1E 1)Africa. RAWSEP View: Africa makes a step forward for clean air, with a half measure. Eco-friendly coal: How it is fuelling the battle against climate change in Africa. 1E 2)Africa. RAWSEP View: burning less wood is not enough. Replacing wood burning with a clean alternative is the answer, not yet available in Africa. 1F1)Arizona, Maricopa County. High Pollution Advisory issued for Wednesday 4/17/2024. 1F2)Arizona. The Arizona Attorney General, the Democrat Kris Mayes, has not joined any action seeking to turn back the progress of the EPA setting a new PM2.5 “safe” annual limit of 9 micrograms per cubic meter. Headlines. 2)California, Cowichan Valley. CVRD offers rebates to residents for replacing wood stoves with heat pumps. You can receive up to $2,350 to replace wood-burning stove

Episode 56TB April 15, 2024. World Bank OCA meets. Avian Canary in a Iron Mine replaced by PM2.5 monitoring. In Episode 56TB 1)India, Goa. Avian Canary in a Coal (in this case Iron) Mine to be replaced by new PM2.5 monitoring, a network of continuous online ambient air quality monitoring stations (C O A A Q M S). 2)Scotland. This issue apparently sells newspapers. Are newspapers staying on point, in the public interest, telling the public that wood burning emits 2.8 times the PM2.5 as the fossil fuel coal burning and telling the public that wood burning emits 450 times the PM2.5 as the fossil fuel natural gas burning? Are newspapers telling the public that the best clean, cheap alternative for home heating is a Heat Pump, subsidized by governments around the world in 2024? 2a)An Oppenheimeresque Architect’s slant on wood burning? RAWSEP View: I actually don’t get the argument here. The architect says Heat Pumps are excellent. But does another architect or (paradoxically) the same architect think banning wood burning is crazy? Is this like the Oppenheimer film where on one hand Oppenheimer says “I am death” and on the other hand he designs the atomic bomb which brings death, although it does end the future deaths which would have been caused by continuing World War Two? Heavy. It is unclear from the headline. 2c)RAWSEP View: Why can’t we all be like Bulgaria? Frustrated Scottish wood burners could all take a slow ancient boat to Bulgaria and retire there, coughing together in ancient Gaelic unison. 2d)RAWSEP View: Ministers should engage wood burners. A journalist apparently calls on the ministers of the Scottish Government to officiate engagements within the Scottish countryside. 2e)RAWSEP View: RAWSEP is dead, dead serious when attempting to promulgate the fact that wood burning emits PM2.5 particulates that negatively affect the health and lives of near neighbors of indoor residential wood burners. 2f)Just the facts in this article, hopefully? 2g)RAWSEP View: Where would all the burning metaphors and tired archaic cliches go if wood burning ended in the world? Or in Scotland? And where would the affluent rural people quite fairly accused of overreacting, not listening and not reading, go if they continue to overreact, not listen and not read? 3)Michigan. Don’t be trashy, don’t burn your garbage. 4)Pennsylvania. Were there possibly any air quality complaints in Faragelli’s neighborhood before the collapse, any whispers or coughs of dissent with the positive PR about the ancientness of Faragelli’s? Wood fired ovens can just collapse? Interesting, and as with all news stories associated with wood fired pizza parlors, inherently a mind numbingly dull, dark, cavity of information about Stone Age technology gone awry. 5)Nigeria. Making charcoal involves burning wood, a PM2.5 pollutant emitting process itself, before the charcoal is even burned, which burning process accounts for even more PM2.5 pollution. 6)India, Guwahati. 2nd most polluted city in the world. 7)PM2.5 and obesity. 1)India, Goa. Avian Canary in a Coal (in this case Iron) Mine to be replaced by new PM2.5 monitoring, a network of continuous online ambient air quality monitoring stations (C O A A Q M S). Soon, new tech to check air quality on mining routes - The Goan Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, a 501c3 non profit organization. Particulate Matter (PM10), PM 2.5. The online ambient air quality monitoring will be carried out. THE GOAN NETWORK, APRIL 14, 2024. The Board is set to install Continuous Online Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (COAAQMS) along the 23 iron ore transportation routes across North and South Goa to measure