Posted on 01/09/2023 6:25:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A federal agency says a ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission plans to take action to address the pollution, which can cause health and respiratory problems.
“This is a hidden hazard,” Richard Trumka Jr., an agency commissioner, said in an interview. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”
Natural gas stoves, which are used in about 40% of homes in the U.S., emit air pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and fine particulate matter at levels the EPA and World Health Organization have said are unsafe and linked to respiratory illness, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and other health conditions, according to reports by groups such as the Institute for Policy Integrity and the American Chemical Society. Consumer Reports, in October, urged consumers planning to buy a new range to consider going electric after tests conducted by the group found high levels of nitrogen oxide gases from gas stoves.
New peer-reviewed research published last month in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that more than 12% of current childhood asthma cases in the U.S. can be attributed to gas stove use.
“There is about 50 years of health studies showing that gas stoves are bad for our health, and the strongest evidence is on children and children’s asthma,” said Brady Seals, a manager in the carbon-free buildings program at the nonprofit clean energy group RMI and a co-author of the study. “By having a gas connection, we are polluting the insides of our homes.”
The Bethesda, Maryland-based Consumer Product Safety Commission, which has a staff of roughly 500, plans to open public comment on hazards posed by gas stoves
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And eggs were bad for us...
This is another steaming load of bovine excrement from the Big Brother gubmint.
Those who managed to pass any frosh course in any STEM curricula would say, “Tell the folks who have children who have been diagnosed with asthma to try not using the gas stove for a few weeks and observe the results. The results of the observation will lead to an obvious conclusion. No more need be said to the rest of us. Which is why we consider the gubmit and the fools who are in it to be beneath contempt.
Propane IS Petroleum.
I’m sure Zer0 Propane is on their RADAR.
“For the children.”
PING!
“The New United States”, moving backwards at full speed, according to plan.
Bloated Fed.gov bureaucratic overreach
The CDC can decide when tenants do not need to pay landlords
The US Bureau of Reclamation decides what California farmers can grow
The EPA can eliminate the pond in your backyard
The NHTSA has a final say on what kind of car you can buy
The DOD performs trans-gender surgeries
Now the CPSC can decide how you cook your food
Yeah. The kids working in open pit mines for “renewable energy” materials will be thrilled to sacrifice for US kids.
Does that filthy, putrid name sound familiar to anyone?
Anyone?
He is the Democrat party son of one of the biggest, most corrupt, pieces of crap to have trod the earth of the American nation: Richard Trumka Sr., president of the AFL-CIO.
Yeah. That guy.
The problem is lack of ventilation because energy efficiency standards pretty much have houses tight as a drum.
Like stepping in a fresh, greasy pile of dogsqueezins.
I asked about that on another thread.
That’s what I thought. The apple apparently doesn’t fall far from the thug tree.
When will Dems figure out their leaders hate them and want them dead.
Cooking on a electric stove is only good for boiling stuff. I’ll take my restaraunt quality gas range over electric every day.
If it can be proved to be true, I have no problem switching over. I always wanted a gas stove, got one, and I’m ambivalent at this point. The big advantage for a gas stove is that if electricity goes out and you are stuck in a freezing cold house, you can start the stove top with the aid of a lighter, and have hot food and a warm kitchen for everyone to gather in.
New peer-reviewed research published last month in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that more than 12% of current childhood asthma cases in the U.S. can be attributed to gas stove use.
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They are probably from households where they light their cigarettes using the gas stove.
6 Jan: Fox News: Podesta-linked energy executive positioned to benefit from Biden’s latest climate agenda
BlocPower could experience major boost from Biden electrification efforts
By Joe Schoffstall
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/podesta-linked-energy-executive-positioned-benefit-bidens-latest-climate-agenda
Buy a study. Back it up with social media placement. Pretty soon you have green woke zealots suing appliance manufacturers for bronchitis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Sey
This woman was on Dennis Prager today.
She is a Liberal who has recognized that the Left is all lies and propaganda.
Ban on wood stoves considered by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission after new study draws connection to childhood slivers.
I throw the bullshit flag on this one for sure. This is all about the war on cheap energy.
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