EPA warns on air quality: Insanity that will cost us all dearly

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has assumed the mantle of our national conscience — in environmental matters at least. Whether we take any notice remains to be seen.

In its latest report, the agency deals with air quality — an issue at the root of an estimated 1,510 premature deaths in 2014.

The EPA warns that burning solid fuels for home heating is the primary way we pollute air we breathe. Emissions from vehicles were the second biggest threat.