gas stoves

“And even if it's true that right now, if you look at the national grid, the gas stoves are slightly, slightly better. As the grid gets greener, which is happening every day that's not going to be true for very long.”

“He made the comments to Bloomberg in response to new peer-reviewed research, which builds on many studies from the last few years, showing that gas stoves are terrible for your health, and they directly contribute to 12% of childhood asthma cases.”

“They actually found there's about 200 different chemicals that are present in gas. 21 of those are air toxins like benzene, which is a known carcinogen with no safe exposure limit and so we know that gas stoves leak about one percent of the methane even while …”

“And actually cooking on the back burners is where it's most effective.”

“So when we looked at, okay, who else has calculated this PAF, population tributal fraction, for other factors, we found that for childhood asthma, it was very similar to exposure to secondhand smoke.”

“And there actually are documentations going back to the mid-eighties that the CPSC and the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, were worried about the health impacts of gas stoves, and were raising the alarm bells about some of these studies about nitrogen…”

“Anything that would happen from the CPSC would relate to new stoves, new regulations, new protections on new stoves.”

“I have gotten some hate mail. I've also gotten a lot of Hate tweets and hate messages in my Twitter.”

“The gas industry has paid experts to testify at regulatory hearings, paid influencers to promote the use of gas stoves over electric ones, Even made corny music videos hammering the message home.”

“And so the last meta-analysis we have from 2013, they looked at the 41 studies that came before, and they said, based on all these results, we conclude that children living in a home with a gas stove have a 42% increased risk of having asthma.”

“We found that 12.7% of childhood asthma Could be attributed to gas stove use, but in some states it was much higher because, for example, in Illinois, 80% of households with children cook with gas, and so for, in that state, it was about 21%, similar in Califo…”