Cornell Cooperative Extension

Essex County
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Learn about buying, storing and safely burning firewood.

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Considering alternative Energy resources.

Energy

Making choices that save energy -- in your home, business or community -- can have a positive impact on the environment while also saving you money. In this section of our website, CCE-Essex offers an array of resources that can help you learn about ways you can reduce energy consumption and use energy resources more efficiently.

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Energy-Saving Lighting

Switch from incandescent to LED lightbulbs and cut your home energy costs. LEDs last up to 20 times longer than incandescent bulbs, use less electricity, and don’t contain mercury, like compact fluorescents (CFLs).

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Portable Electric Heaters.

While portable electric heaters are one of the easiest heaters to use for supplemental heat in a home, they are not magic. Learn more about them here.

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Last updated December 23, 2019

Energy

Home Heating Emergency

Essex County Dept. of Social Services
7551 Court Street / P. O. Box 217
Elizabethtown, New York 12932-0217
(518) 873-3445

AFTER HOURS:
SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT (518) 873-3346

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Don't Move Firewood!

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Firewood Transport Rules were revised August 2012 to improve regulatory compliance and enforcement. The existence of this regulation helps prevent firewood infested with invasive insects such as emerald ash borer and Asian longhorned beetle from being transported throughout the state, spreading the destruction of trees.