I could see forced air combustion as an easy way to meet the standard. For in the room stoves, I wouldn't like that if it were designed such that it won't burn as well as a normal stove does now without a fan--and it probably wouldn't. For burners installed outside of the living space, it wouldn't be much of an issue or new. Most people probably aren't familiar with the background of the eight New England states suing the EPA to force them to enforce clean air standards in a way that matters to New England. This article is a reasonable overview.
Connecticut, 7 other states seek EPA crackdown on Midwest pollution | The CT Mirror Maine was a part of that group before our Tea Party Gov. came along. This battle concerning "tailpipe" states has been going on for a long time now in one way or another. This is the crux of the problem: "Gov. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire said her state could take every car off the road and still see ozone levels drop by just 3 percent." The same is true in Maine both for tailpipe and tourism reasons. You could take Maine cars off the road and still fail the pollution standards. Making all Maine vehicles super clean will not fix the problem. We have no control over the vehicles visiting, upwind, or the power plants in other states. Back in the late 90's we tried emission testing for autos in the southern counties. It was a disaster. The company the state contracted with to do the annual testing was incompetent. People could take their cars to three test stations and get three very different results--all on the same day. It was such an embarrassment that the state canceled the whole program. The bottom line for New England air quality and all that goes with that (water quality, forest and human health) is, it is not in our power to fix it well enough by making local changes. The air is already well polluted before it gets to us. That is not an excuse for us to do nothing here, but it is a hurdle we cannot jump without federal actions.
