Web 57DHYAFZZFLLH September 18 2026   U S Air quality monitors are quietly legislated away by states

U S Air quality monitors are quietly being legislated away by states

While air quality monitors measuring chemicals in air in US states

Are being undermined by legislation introduced by Chemical companies

Who do not want regulation in Louisiana Kentucky Ohio and West Virginia

Residents Against Wood Smoke Emissions is concerned with wood burning

By wood burning residents in residential areas indoors whose emissions leak

Into the yards and infiltrate the homes of neighbors, sickening them at peaks

The under Three Hundred Dollar Resident owned air quality monitors

PM Two point five air quality monitors include Purple Air monitors

Stand Low cost next to official E P A monitors costing thousands of dollars

Purple Air monitors are useful to plug in the vacuum of information on Wildfire

wood burning toxic emissions of PM Two point Five to educate the public about fires

in their area that may require evacuations or may require the public to stay inside

homes with multiple air purifiers running to remove the PM Two point Five from air inside

Would it produce outcry if our current Federal Government moved to end

use of Purple Air monitors to monitor Wildfire wood burning smoke and

Be in sync with the current end of monitoring of chemical air pollution to ignore

Pollution and remove useful data that could be used in lawsuits against nuisance

An understatement of what nearby neighbors endure when near an appliance

That pumps out air pollution from wood burning when a wood burning house

Has a wood stove or fireplace that is designed to provide good ventilation out

To the yards and into the homes of near neighbors rather than stay in the house

Before Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates organized

Nuisance complaints against indoor residential wood burning failed, we recognized

That piecemeal local lawsuits are not the way to stop indoor residential wood burning

However Purple Air PM Two point Five data is the perfect substantiating

Of local ordinances, state laws or federal legislation that could shut down

Each air polluting wood stove or fireplace whose emissions exceed PM

Two Point Five air pollution limits set by the World Health Organization

Limit of Five Micrograms per Cubic Meter In that way residents affected

Can act as canaries in a coal mine as alarms showing need to be regulated

Because those residents have purchased a low cost monitor already used

Across the nation to show Wildfire wood burning emissions on US EPA maps

Of Smoke and Fire  Will state legislation pushed by chemical vendors

Extend by creep to federal legislation pushed by wood burning vendors

To end use of Purple Air monitors on U S EPA maps of smoke and fire?

The arguments made against Monitors of Airborne Polluting chemical emissions

Could be used against PM Two point Five monitors against wood burning emissions

The Chemical industry starts by denigrating the data collected from community

Based air quality monitors which are low cost but accurate Already the EPA in most cases

smooths out data if it is higher than the EPA would like to deal with, as if it is unbelievable

Nearby neighbors know that PM Two point Five data from Purple Air monitors

Is not unbelievable  Accurate monitors show that PM Two point Five levels are high

A representative of a Chemical Company goes so far as to say ““You don’t want to be

 stopped for speeding on an uncalibrated speed gun” As if anticipating that Community

owned Radar Guns need to be equivalent to perhaps expensive official radar guns to be

believed As if radar guns can be sold and used if they are massively defective

Similarly, for years the specious argument has been made by the wood burning industry

may say that Purple Air PM monitors cannot be trusted unless continually recalibrated

manually Do smoke detectors in the home have to be recalibrated manually? No And

Health or Police Departments can be invited in to take their own measurements preceding

lawsuits for nuisance start dates or before crafting state laws or US legislation

One strong argument for using Purple Air monitor data to shut down wood burning

Is the similarity of using low cost radar guns available for purchase by citizens

To first gather data to show to law enforcement to point out that cars are speeding

Often drunkenly down residential streets endangering pedestrians and housing

And the people inside those houses on residential streets  Then law enforcement

Can set up their own radar surveillance of that residential street predictably would

catch speeders endangering people who, if there are no speeders, could live in peace 

Citizens should be able to set up their own Purple Air monitors to use data gathered

On PM Two point five levels which predictably correlate with times when wood in burned

Nearby hyper localized in areas not covered by official EPA PM Two Point Five monitors

Which are located near industry if the EPA were responsible in catching industrial air pollution

But far from residential areas