The Environmental protection agency (EPA) has given the city
of Fairbanks Alaska, $70k to start a wood exchange program. The program will allow residents to exchange
a cord (128 cubic feet) of wet wood for a cord of dry wood. Dry wood burns much cleaner then wet wood and
could potentially help reduce the amount of fine particulate matter in the
interior Alaska city. The city proposed
a large scale program which would cost a half a million dollars but was awarded
only a small portion of that from the EPA.
The borough assembly will need to create an ordinance to accept the
money, which could happen sometime in December.
Fairbanks is looking at creative ways to lower its emissions because
millions of federal dollars have been tied to the city’s air quality.
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