EPA banned about 80% of the new wood-burning stoves and fireplace inserts in the United States. used to heat 12% of the homes in America and are especially needed in outlying rural areas. Fireplaces are also being looked at. The EPA is attempting to reduce particle pollution with new rules. equivalent to a person smoking 3 to 4 cigarettes in a small confined space. Millions of square miles of the Amazon are burning and over two billion people in the third world cook with burning wood but you little American, cannot have a wood stove, so declares the administration of the unelected dictator.