It's not going to work out for Boston, but for people in Western Mass/ Norther CT/New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine to say it's horrific and clean coal would be better seems a bit ridiculous.

If you get a modern EPA certified stove the air pollution is not that bad. The pollution is less than 2 grams an hour.

It's pretty much too late now, but anyone in New England that is more of the rural/suburban end of housing could have installed a wood stove/pellet stove.

Given, I think a lot of people are doing that as stove installers are definitely having a problem keeping up with demand.

And anecdotally I'm having a hard time finding free wood compared to what I've been able to get in recent years