As of Nov. 1, no wood-burning heating devices — fireplaces, stoves or fireplace inserts — are allowed in new housing construction under a rule adopted in October 2015 by the Bay Area Air ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (KTVU) -- The Bay Area Air Quality Management Board voted unanimously to impose a ban on wood-burning fireplaces and devices in all new home construction, effective November 1 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area became the first region in the nation on Wednesday to ban wood-burning heating devices — even modern stoves — in new-home construction starting in a year.Bay ...

Even wood stoves certified by the federal Environmental Protection Agency as low emission would not be allowed in new homes whose construction begins after Nov. 1, 2016, in the seven Bay Area ...

On Earth Day in 2014, as part of a clean-air initiative and in line with other eco-friendly cities, Mayor Bill DeBlasio announced that as of July 1, 2014 the construction of new wood-burning ...