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Wood Smoke Rebate Program NOTE: Due to overwhelming response to the Wood Smoke Rebate Program, all rebate vouchers have been assigned. The Wood Smoke Rebate Program is now closed. We want to thank Bay Area residents for their commitment to improving air quality and encourage them to continue to make clean air choices in the future. Switch out your wood-burning fireplace or stove and SAVE! The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District) will be offering rebates when you purchase a gas stove or insert to replace your wood-burning fireplace or stove. Switching from burning wood to using gas will reduce fine particulate matter air pollution and improve air quality in your neighborhood. Click here after 8 AM on April 7 for application instructions.
Why Change Out Your Wood Stove or Fireplace? Older wood stoves and fireplaces emit far more air pollution than newer U.S. EPA-certified wood-burning appliances or heaters using other fuels. These emissions can affect your health and that of your neighbors. Consider heating your home without burning wood. Or consider a natural gas stove or fireplace, which burns cleaner, starts easy, and costs less to operate. Gas stoves and fireplace inserts come in many sizes and styles, can fit inside an existing fireplace, and produce lots of heat and little smoke. Old wood stoves can produce more than 400 times as much particulate pollution as gas stoves.
Pellet stoves, which use a renewable fuel, are among the cleanest burning — they produce about 1 gram of particulates per hour. For a list of EPA-certified wood stoves and fireplaces, visit www.epa.gov/woodstoves.
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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