The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says the Environmental Protection Agency has provided the Fairbanks North Star Borough with $70,000 to start a program that will allow people to trade in a cord of wet wood for a cord of cleaner-burning dry wood.
Mayor Luke Hopkins says the program is part of a plan to tackle the area's persistent winter smoke.
Hopkins earlier this year proposed the EPA help fund the program by providing a half-million dollars. It was a long-shot request because the EPA typically doesn't fund such projects. But with the help from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, the EPA granted $70,000 to begin the program.
Important warning about e-mails purporting to be from the adn.com staff.