Wood exchange program hopes to lower emissions in Alaska

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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