POUGHKEEPSIE – With two days of hot, summer weather behind us with questionable air quality, Dutchess County Legislature Environmental Committee Chairman Joel Tyner Tuesday proposed imposing regulations on outdoor wood burning furnaces.

Tyner said other areas have imposed their own rules, and Dutchess County should consider it as well.

“Different communities have done different things. Rockland and Suffolk County have passed regulations, you’ve got the Republican majority in East Fishkill and Beekman, Village of Rhinebeck, and you have Democrats in Hyde Park,” he said.

Tyner said with a high rate of asthma in Dutchess, it would behoove the county to regulate those outdoor furnaces.