EPA’s next target in fight against climate change: cooking stoves

The Washington Times ^ | May 26, 2014 | By John Solomon

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The war on climate change may soon be moving inside the kitchen.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy is set to unveil on Tuesday six federal grants to universities to fund research on clean cookstove technology.

The announcement will put the EPA’s resources squarely behind a United Nations’ quest for cleaner burning stoves and an end to deadly cooking pollution.

“This research will help to improve air quality, protect public health and slow climate change,” the EPA said in explaining why the agency chief will preside over the announcement on Tuesday.

To make the case for why these grants are so important, EPA noted the World Health Organization estimates that exposure to smoke from traditional cookstoves and open pit fires leads to 4.3 million premature deaths each year.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The tyranny continues.

[FatherofFive]

For the children...

[headstamp 2]

This is the natural end point for an out of control government bureaucracy.

[cableguymn]

electric stoves are zero emissions.. (just like plug in cars right? ;) )

they can send me a check. I just fixed the problem for them.

[DoughtyOne]

Where’s the Raid when a cockroach like this organization is running across the kitchen floor? Quick someone, anyone, step on it!

[bunkerhill7]

Arizona and California wildfires are 2 very large cooking stoves. Suck on that you SOB`s!

[ExCTCitizen]

We need a civil war. If the Liberals/Marxists want to regulate cooking stoves, I will tell them 'Hell No!!!'. My cooking stove doesn't pollute nor does it contribute to Globull Warming. Do the Marxists want us to cook with Bull Dung? They are trying to push Bull Dung on us.

Stop Tyranny!!!

[ExCTCitizen]

For the children....

For the Marxists...

fixed it...

[Don Corleone]

Meanwhile millions of people around the world cook their meager meals over open wood fires . For these government Luddites its publish or perish. They must publish new regulations at an ever increasing rate or they cannot justify their jobs, bonuses, retirement checks and in general their own existence. Its bloated useless government at its finest.

[Teacher317]

4.3 million dead per year? From cooking? Where do they get these numbers???

Only about 65 million people died on the entire planet last year, from all causes combined.

[Daffynition]

Ut oh.

[cyclotic]

They already screwed up our clothes washers, now these vermin are coming after our gas stoves. ENOUGH!

[umgud]

When can I expect a no-knock raid thru my side gate to get to my wood burning bbq grill?

[kitchen]

[Daffynition]

Why don't these people just order take-out to prolong their life?

Or maybe it's suicide by cooking. I should apply for a government grant to study this.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The EPA is taking America back to the Stone Age. It won’t be long before we’re throwing people in volcanos as a sacrifice to Gaia.

[sport]

I think that you said it as a joke, but one thing the EPA doesn’t have is a sense of humor. I would say somewhere between 2016 to 2024.

[Daffynition]

You took literally...*Can’t stand the heat get outta the kitchen*, eh?

[mountn man]

We need a civil war. If the Liberals/Marxists want to regulate cooking stoves, I will tell them 'Hell No!!!'. My cooking stove doesn't pollute nor does it contribute to Globull Warming. Do the Marxists want us to cook with Bull Dung? They are trying to push Bull Dung on us.

Stop Tyranny!!!

Oh...don't be ridiculous.

This has nothing to do with trying to force people to cook with bull dung.

Besides, didn't you get the memo?

Cow farts cause GoreBULL warming.

No, this isn't about cooking with bull dung.
This is about trying to kill off as much as the population as possible.
So the elite can live in a pristine world.

[CPOSharky]

The gooberment libtards are constantly making laws to “save lives” while at the same time letting people die waiting for gooberment furnished medical care. Makes sense to who?