California is so much in love with regulation, that now they want to control what you do in your own living room. Air quality proposals will put the kibosh on traditional wood burning fireplaces.

Under the proposal, most wood burning fireplaces would be banned in new homes, and fireplaces in existing homes would have to be disabled, or converted to gas before they could be sold. The proposal would also specify that on 'bad air days', home owners with existing wood burning fireplaces would be prohibited from using them.

The proposal is being considered, largely because a 'voluntary' ban hasn't been successful. Therefore, Californian enviro-wackos feel it is necessary to use the police power of government, and the threat of lethal force to enforce their environmental policies.

The measure largely relies on an 'Operation TIPS' type of enforcement, where neighbors turn in neighbors for not towing the utopian line. Citations and fines would be issued, but I can tell you right now where mine would end up.