Earlier this month I received an email from "Green Heat News" which had embedded in the article the Inspector General's report. I thought it was quite intriguing. Below is a link to the PDF.
Then just last week I was forwarded the link below by another Kuuma owner. It appears this whole testing program needs to figure things out. It's a shame how they almost bankrupted a company who makes the best d*mn wood furnace in the country by simply moving the finish line all of a sudden and not telling them about it until their 5 year renewal was up. They were forced to stop selling/producing their furnace until they could re-test and be re-certified; which they did, 6 months later. However, the lab screwed up and/or misinterpreted the EPA’s testing guidelines related to weight of wood required per test burn and they may now have to re-test yet again in 5 years.
Then just last week I was forwarded the link below by another Kuuma owner. It appears this whole testing program needs to figure things out. It's a shame how they almost bankrupted a company who makes the best d*mn wood furnace in the country by simply moving the finish line all of a sudden and not telling them about it until their 5 year renewal was up. They were forced to stop selling/producing their furnace until they could re-test and be re-certified; which they did, 6 months later. However, the lab screwed up and/or misinterpreted the EPA’s testing guidelines related to weight of wood required per test burn and they may now have to re-test yet again in 5 years.
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Investigation raps EPA’s wood burner testing: Federal watchdog confirms many complaints aired by Lamppa Manufacturing
REGIONAL— The Environmental Protection Agency’s testing program for wood stoves and other wood-burning devices is ineffective and is putting the public’s health at risk. …
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