Web 57DHYAFZZFLYY July 24 2026 Stopping Wood Burning by Season The Plan up to 2027
Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates uses short excerpts from recent posts on the National Defense Resources Council NRDC website to point out that NRDC lawsuit reasonings could be useful in any future lawsuits which could be brought to stop indoor residential wood burning Indoor residential wood burning endangers the health of near neighbors of indoor residential wood burners Particulate matter is emitted by fossil fuel burning such as coal burning natural gas burning liquified natural gas burning and oil burning Particulates are emitted as well as indoor residential wood burning and wood burning power plants and wildfire wood burning If cheaper and clean alternatives to fossil fuel burning and wood burning for heat such as wind and solar are blocked by Trump in order to boost fossil fuel and wood sales and use as dirty energy the air globally is less clean and the air in neighborhoods is less clean We are experiencing the wildfire wood smoke incursions into The United States largely from U S West Coast and Canadian fires reminiscent of June Two Thousand Twenty Three now in July of Two Thousand Twenty Six! Lawsuits make a dent in what the Trump administration can do destructively to stymie clean air only until around Two Thousand Twenty Seven if Midterm Elections go the way of Democrats as hoped for and predicted The economic concerns of voters in the November Two Thousand Twenty Six Midterms can be appealed to by pointing out that subsidies for reopening Coal Plants for instance is a drain on economic resources and no economic favor to the average voter for that reason as well as contributing to higher utility bills and increased healthcare costs in the future for lung cancer and other unnecessary health emergencies brought on by air pollution from both fossil fuel burning and wood burning
Stopping Wood Burning by Season The Plan up to Two Thousand Twenty Seven
FLY Y A Seasons of Wood Burning US Winter Two Thousand Twenty Five to Winter 2027
FLY Y B Spring Forward to War and Wood Burning Spring Two Thousand Twenty Six
FLY Y C Summer of Wood Burning Smoke Two Thousand Twenty Six
FLY Y D Fall Back to stopping Wood Burning Two Thousand Twenty Six
FLY Y E Winter Fall Back stopping Wood Burning 2027 continues
FLY Y A Seasons of Wood Burning US Winter Two Thousand Twenty Five to Winter 2027
Working backward from the envisioned Winter of 2027
FLY Y E What actions will the Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC take to thwart Trump air polluting practices especially Trump actions to stop clean energy such as Wind and Solar by the Winter of 2027 when a new Democratic democratically elected U S Congress returns on January 1 2027?
In what way will voters enable environmentalists like the NDRC and Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates in Winter 2027? Impeachment and removal from office of Trump Vance and the Trump Cabinet including Robert F Kennedy Junior
Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates is concerned with threats to the health of near neighbors of indoor residential wood burning The particulate emissions from indoor residential wood burning are the same as the particulate emissions from wildfire wood burning and biomass wood burning emissions from biomass power plants Wood burning emits Two point Eight times the PM Two point Five particulates as the fossil fuel coal burning Wood burning emits Four Hundred Fifty Times the PM Two point Five as the fossil fuel natural gas burning The Natural Resources Defense Council brings lawsuits and has brought lawsuits against the Trump administration regarding air pollution threats from Trump continuing to allow operation of fossil fuel burning power plants The analogies to air polluting biomass wood burning power plants are clear PM Two point Five refers to particulates of Two point Five micrometer size which are the perfect size to infiltrate the human lung setting off a cascade of human health problems including cancer and early death The Natural Resources Defense Council brings lawsuits and has brought lawsuits against the Trump administration regarding shutting down development of wind farms and solar farms and support for electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging stations Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates believes that alternatives to dirty energy such as Wind and Solar energy and Electric Vehicles and Electric Vehicle charging stations powered by a modern electric grid that extends to all rural areas are needed to provide alternatives to indoor residential wood burning when wood burning is instead used for home heating or home cooking when lack of alternatives are some excuses given for wood burning The fact that wind and solar are now cheaper than wood burning or fossil fuel burning strengthen the case Residents Against Wood Smoke Emissions makes against indoor residential wood burning Indoor Residential Wood Burning is often done for aesthetic reasons by the more wealthy segments of society despite claims of being indigent There are or were federal programs to help the indigent heat their homes cleanly and there are still programs led by states to help veterans heat their homes cleanly during the winter There were or are Federal programs offering rebates for Heat Pumps which are clean energy run on electricity which should be available to all rural areas Heat pumps can work down to Forty Degrees below Zero and double as air conditioners
FLY Y D What actions will the Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC take to thwart Trump air polluting practices especially Trump actions to stop clean energy such as Wind and Solar in the Fall of Two Thousand Twenty Six?
In what way will voters enable environmentalists like the NDRC and Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates in the Fall of Two Thousand Twenty Six? Election of Majorities of Democrats to the House of Representatives and the Senate in the Fall of Two Thousand Twenty Six
FLY Y C What actions did the Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC take to thwart Trump air polluting practices especially Trump actions to stop clean energy such as Wind and Solar in the Summer of Two Thousand Twenty Six? A lawsuit was brought to Give new wind farms a fair chance There was a Victory when it was ruled the Internal Revenue Service must lift its discriminatory restrictions on new wind and solar projects
Excerpts edited by Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates from The National Defense Resources Council website June 18 Two Thousand Twenty Six Giving new wind farms a fair chance Turbines at Block Island Wind Farm located in the Atlantic Ocean Three point Eight miles from Block Island Rhode Island Several environmental groups including NRDC filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit against the U S Department of Defense DOD for its abuse of a routine review process to thwart development of more than One Hundred new wind farms across the country By refusing to review new wind projects the DOD is jeopardizing around Forty Six Thousand megawatts of new generation capacity enough electricity to power around Fourteen million homes for an entire year These projects would provide affordable and reliable power helping lower electric rates at a time of high demand and rising costs of living June 8 Two Thousand Twenty Six VICTORY The IRS must lift its discriminatory restrictions on new solar and wind projects A turbine base under construction at South Fork Wind Farm in Long Island New York A U S district court ruled that the more stringent requirements for qualifying for federal energy tax credits that the Internal Revenue Service IRS placed only on wind and solar projects were illegal In her decision on the IRS Notice which made it more difficult and often more expensive for solar and wind projects to qualify Judge Colleen Kollar Kotelly wrote The natural economic consequence of the Notice is less clean electricity generation capacity and higher electricity prices
FLY Y B The Spring of Two Thousand Twenty Six What actions did the Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC take to thwart Trump air polluting practices especially Trump actions to stop clean energy such as Wind and Solar in the Spring of Two Thousand Twenty Six? A Lawsuit was brought to Keep toxic emissions out of the air
Excerpts edited by Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates from The National Defense Resources Council website March 30 Two Thousand Twenty Six Keeping toxic emissions out of the air The J H Campbell Generating Plant in West Olive Michigan was scheduled to close May 31 Two Thousand Twenty Five however the U S Department of Energy declared an emergency order on May 23 Two Thousand Twenty Five requiring the coal plant to remain available for operation A large coalition of health community and environmental groups sued the U S Environmental Protection Agency EPA for violating the Clean Air Act by repealing rules that limit the emissions of fine particulate matter and toxic heavy metals such as mercury and lead For more than a decade the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards have been a huge boon to public health lowering risk for cancer asthma and heart disease and decreasing emissions of the neurotoxin mercury by a whopping Ninety percent from coal burning power plants The lawsuit also challenges the Trump EPA rollback of continuous emissions monitoring which provides nearby communities with data on the amount of pollution coming out of power plants in real time
FLY Y A From the Winter of Two Thousand Twenty Five through the Winter of Two Thousand Twenty Six What actions did the Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC take to thwart Trump air polluting practices especially Trump actions to stop clean energy such as Wind and Solar from the Winter of Two Thousand Twenty Five to the Winter of Two Thousand Twenty Six? Lawsuits were brought to protect the Endangerment Finding to stop LNG exports to unfreeze EV infrastructure funds to fight discrimination against wind and solar to halt an illegal offshore oil and gas lease sale to make sure the math is correct on grid reliability to Close down dirty and expensive power plants part 2 to make polluters pay for climate disasters Closing down dirty and expensive power plants part One Protecting communities from oil refinery chemical disasters Fighting to get drivers more miles per gallon Keeping mercury and other toxins out of our air and water Fighting for EV charging stations Opposing the ban on new wind power Unfreezing climate funds A VICTORY! U S Department of Agriculture USDA to return climate change information to website
Excerpts edited by Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates from The National Defense Resources Council website March 16 Two Thousand Twenty Six Making sure the EPA values your life in its air pollution decisions Why the endangerment finding is so critical to our fight against climate change and how the EPA repeal of it not only goes against overwhelming scientific evidence but also has no legal standing NRDC alongside more than a dozen other health and environmental groups sued the U S Environmental Protection Agency EPA and its administrator Lee Zeldin over its illegal rescission of the Two Thousand Nine endangerment finding The finding in which the EPA scientifically concluded that climate change imperils public health gives the agency the authority to regulate climate emissions such as from cars and trucks February 17 Two Thousand Twenty Six Stopping Liquified Natural Gas LNG exports from raising energy bills and destroying the climate An aerial view of a liquefied natural gas LNG tanker ship NRDC along with other environmental groups sued the U S Department of Energy DOE for greenlighting the future export Twenty million metric tons of liquefied natural gas LNG each year from a massive facility currently under construction on the Louisiana coast January 23 Two Thousand Twenty Six VICTORY Trump administration must unfreeze EV infrastructure funds A woman charging her electric car at a public charging station in Brooklyn New York City A U S District Court ruled that the U S Department of Transportation must reinstate the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure NEVI program that it had unlawfully suspended in May Two Thousand Twenty Five The lawsuit brought by Twenty states and the District of Columbia along with advocacy organizations including NRDC and the Sierra Club successfully defended the Five Billion Dollar program that aims to build EV charging stations across the country December 18 Two Thousand Twenty Five Fighting discrimination against wind and solar The example of the Photovoltaic solar panel arrays at Sunnyside Community Solar Project in La Plata County Colorado The Nine acre One point Seven MegaWatt solar field is owned and operated by La Plata Electric Association LPEA and generates an estimated Four Million Six hundred Forty Three Thousand Kilowatt Hours per year enough to power an estimated Six Hundred homes NRDC as part of a broad coalition of groups from across the country sued the Internal Revenue Service and the U S Department of Treasury over a new policy that places unfair restrictions on wind and solar projects To qualify for federal energy tax credits companies typically must prove they have begun construction by starting physical work or by spending Five percent of the budget of their project before the credits expire But without providing any explanation the Treasury Department policy eliminates the Five percent standard for solar and wind companies while leaving it in place for other energy sources The move illegally obstructs these affordable energy options from coming online at a time of increased demand and rising electricity prices December 16 Two Thousand Twenty Five Unfreezing funds for EV charging stations A woman charging her electric car at a public charging station Several environmental groups including NRDC sued the U S Department of Transportation for withholding Two point Five billion dollars through a federal grant program for infrastructure projects that include electric vehicle charging stations in communities and transportation corridors Earlier this year the Trump administration illegally froze most of the One point Eight billion dollars that had already been awarded to around 140 projects around the country which are now in limbo Such charging infrastructure would help lower vehicle emissions and improve air quality in local communities a major health concern in areas with high car and truck traffic November 18 Two Thousand Twenty Five Halting an illegal offshore oil and gas lease sale An offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico Several environmental groups including NRDC are suing the Trump administration to stop the auctioning off of 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico for fossil fuel exploration and extraction In finalizing the sale which was slated for December November 17 Two Thousand Twenty Five Making sure the math is correct on grid reliability The coal fired Dave Johnston Power Plant outside Glenrock Wyoming Environmental groups including NRDC are challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC approval of a grid planning proposal that inaccurately assesses power sources favoring fossil fuels over renewable power In its evaluations concerning grid reliability the Southwest Power Pool SPP which serves 14 states holds generators of renewable power such as wind and solar to a higher standard than it does coal and gas The SPP proposal also fails to fully account for the dismal performance that fossil fuel plants have demonstrated during recent extreme winter and summer weather in the region Such miscalculations could not only lead to less reliable electricity but also in higher bills for ratepayers September 26 Two Thousand Twenty Five Closing down dirty and expensive power plants part 2 The Eddystone Generating Station in Eddystone Pennsylvania Several public advocacy groups led by NRDC filed a petition in the District of Columbia D C Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge the U S Department of Energy DOE May Two Thousand Twenty Five order to block the planned retirement of the two highly polluting units at an aging inefficient oil and gas power plant in Pennsylvania The owners of the Eddystone Generating Station located along the Delaware River just south of Philadelphia decided to close the two nearly Sixty year old units in Two Thousand Twenty Three because they were too costly to keep running Subsequently the regional grid operator PJM determined their loss would not harm electricity reliability Nevertheless under the guise of a so called energy emergency the DOE wants to keep the Eddystone units operational while passing the high operational costs on to consumers August 22 Two Thousand Twenty Five Making polluters pay for climate disasters Floodwaters covering a road in Washington County Vermont On behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association and Conservation Law Foundation NRDC is helping defend the Vermont Climate Superfund Act a type of polluters pay law in lawsuits brought by the Trump administration fossil fuel interests and Republican led states Passed last year the act would allow the state to assess costs from large fossil companies in order to fund climate adaptation projects that would help prevent further damage to communities from climate change July 24 Two Thousand Twenty Five Closing down dirty and expensive power plants part One The J H Campbell coal fired power plant in West Olive Michigan Consumers Energy had planned to retire the plant on May 31 Two Thousand Twenty Five but President Trump ordered it to keep operating The President cited an energy emergency which Michigan officials deny NRDC together with several public interest groups challenged the U S Department of Energy DOE order to keep a dirty old and inefficient coal fired power plant running past its long planned closing date of May Thirty First Despite the DOE claims of a so called energy emergency the continued operation of the J H Campbell power plant in Michigan is both uneconomic and unnecessary given that the owner of the plant has also already acquired adequate amounts of electric generation from other sources to replace the output of its aging plant Further the DOE actions undermine the typical regulatory process and legal decisions already carried out by state and regional authorities Keeping the plant open for just Ninety days would cost around One Hundred million dollars July 9 Two Thousand Twenty Five Protecting communities from oil refinery chemical disasters Residents of Wilmington Signal Hill and Long Beach suffer damaging health impacts from the toxic fumes of an oil refinery A cyclist rides along a path near an oil refinery Together with partners NRDC filed a lawsuit to force the U S Environmental Protection Agency EPA to address the threat of hydrogen fluoride HF used in more than 40 oil refineries across the country HF causes serious harm to skin muscle bone lungs and other bodily tissues on contact with sometimes fatal consequences Despite the availability of safer alternatives refineries store massive amounts of Hydrogen Floride HF which when released into the air forms a toxic ground hugging fog that can travel for miles This endangers the more than Nineteen million residents who live near these facilities as well as those along train and truck routes used to transport HF The lawsuit seeks to compel the EPA to commence rulemaking under the Toxic Substance Control Act to eliminate this unreasonable risk June 20 Two Thousand Twenty Five Fighting to get drivers more miles per gallon NRDC along with the Environmental Defense Fund Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity sued the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration over its new rule that halts enforcement of its fuel efficiency standards Last summer the previous administration set fuel efficiency standards that would save U S drivers about Twenty Three billion dollars at the pump and avoid burning Seventy billion gallons of gasoline The legal interpretations in the Trump new rule would significantly weaken these standards June 12 Two Thousand Twenty Five Keeping mercury and other toxins out of our air and water A two unit coal and gas fired Steam Station polluting the air NRDC as part of a coalition of nine environmental and community groups sued to block the Trump illegal exemption of nearly Seventy coal fired power plants from complying with updated air pollution limits The exemptions granted over email without public input allow plants in 23 states to emit dangerous amounts of the neurotoxin mercury arsenic benzene and other air pollutants While the administration claims the exemptions are necessary due to national security interests and a lack of available technology the lawsuit charges that pollution controls are not only widely available but also currently being used by nearly all of the exempted power plants and others May 22 Two Thousand Twenty Five Fighting for EV charging stations An electric car parked at an Evolve New York charging station in a shopping center parking lot NRDC moved to intervene with Sierra Club Climate Solutions Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Clean AIRE NC West End Revitalization Association and Plug In America in support of states suing the Federal Highway Administration for unlawfully suspending the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure NEVI program Congress approved the Five billion dollar program in Two Thousand Twenty One under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to build electric vehicle charging stations across the country to support the growing adoption of zero emission vehicles The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration lacks the authority to defund NEVI and asks the court to reinstate the program May 15 Two Thousand Twenty Five Opposing the ban on new wind power A wind turbine under construction Last week 17 states Washington D C and a clean energy trade association sued the administration over a presidential memorandum that essentially halts federal permits for all wind projects unlawfully impeding the growing industry The lawsuit asks the court to immediately overturn the ban and to tell the administration to process permits while the case moves forward May 14 Two Thousand Twenty Five Unfreezing climate funds Workers installing rooftop solar panels on a home NRDC filed an amicus brief in support of a district court ruling that ordered the U S Environmental Protection Agency EPA to stop its efforts to withhold billions in grants within the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund On top of the agency offering no rational explanation for canceling the grants the judge stated EPA lacks the authority to effectively unilaterally dismantle a program that Congress established The agency is now appealing the decision but incorrectly claims it can replace these climate action funds or spend them in other ways As NRDC argues such unconstitutional actions could cause Twenty billion dollars that Congress lawfully appropriated to achieve its policy objectives [to] be lost forever May 12 Two Thousand Twenty Five A VICTORY! U S Department of Agriculture USDA to return climate change information to website After NRDC and partners sued the U S Department of Agriculture USDA in February Two Thousand Twenty Five for illegally removing information on climate change from its website the agency in a letter filed in the U S District Court of Southern New York has agreed to restore the content and comply with federal laws regarding those web materials in the future April 28 Two Thousand Twenty Five Keeping the federal government working for the people including The Environmental Protection Agency EPA when it works for the American people NRDC joined a lawsuit with a sizable coalition of federal employee unions nonprofit groups and local governments to challenge the Trump executive order that instructed federal agencies to radically restructure and layoff huge numbers of staff The lawsuit argues that only Congress has the authority to transform the federal government in this way and asks the court to stop the implementation of the executive order which violates the bedrock constitutional principle of the separation of powers NRDC and other partners represented by Earthjustice sue the U S Department of Agriculture USDA for illegally purging climate change information from its website The Trump United States Department of Agriculture USDA violated the Freedom of Information Act the Paperwork Reduction Act and the Administrative Procedure Act when it removed resources that are vital to U S farmers Some of the information included details on how to reduce pollution access billions of dollars of funds for conservation practices and farm more effectively amid extreme weather The lawsuit seeks a court order requiring the restoration of the webpages and that the agency adhere to the law when making future changes to its website