Katherine Hamelin saw her home turned into a hazardous waste site. Nicholas Stephens had to rip his house off its foundation. Joe Hurley lost his retirement savings. And it can all happen because of a ...

The last few years have not been kind to oil furnace sales. According to the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), sales of oil warm air furnace shipments decreased 14.5 ...

Believe it or not, sales of oil furnaces are increasing. Granted, they’re still not flying off the shelves at the frequency they were during the peak years of the 1990s, when annual sales sometimes ...

Gas and oil furnaces burn fuel to provide heat for homes, and that presents a basic problem. Every combustion process produces noxious gases. How do you keep those gases from circulating throughout ...

A blend of degummed soybean oil and No. 2 fuel oil can be used as an alternative heating fuel and reduce sulfur emissions, according to a Purdue University scientist. Klein Ileleji, an assistant ...

Katherine Hamelin saw her home turned into a hazardous waste site. Nicholas Stephens had to rip his house off its foundation. Joe Hurley lost his retirement savings. And it can all happen because of a ...