Pellet stoves are a cozy way to add some extra heat (and ambience) to your home. These popular units, which burn compressed wood pellets, can be more convenient and efficient than conventional ...

A new peer-reviewed study quantifies broadly for the first time the air pollution and public health impacts across the United States from both manufacturing wood pellets and burning them for energy.

Diana Kruzman is a Midwest Fellow at Grist, and her freelance work has appeared in Undark, Earther, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Vice, and Religion News Service. Her reporting ...

They produce more harmful particulate matter than diesel trucks and cigarette smoke. They release carbon dioxide and toxic chemicals that can lead to dire health and climate outcomes. Yet efforts to ...

Check Before You Burn started Nov. 1 across the Sacramento region to curb air pollution created by smoke. Here’s when you can and can’t burn. Rawf8 Getty Images/iStockphoto As the weather begins a ...