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Gas stoves account for 12.7% of childhood asthma cases in the US
“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…”
Gas stove asthma risk is directly comparable to secondhand smoke exposure
“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.”
Gas stoves leak unburned methane and 21 air toxics while turned off
“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 …”
Baking in a gas oven exceeds outdoor NO2 limits within five minutes
“The outdoor one-hour standard for nitrogen dioxide is a hundred parts per billion, but we know from studies
that baking a cake, for example, in a gas oven will
Give you a reading of 230 parts per billion, and some recent researchers have been found that in jus…”
Seals: Over 57 studies since the 1970s link gas cooking to child health issues
“There's actually over 57 studies going back to the seventies, so 50 years. There's been two meta-analyses on gas cooking in childhood health. One in 1992, and another one in 2013.”
Seals: 2013 meta-analysis linked gas stoves to 42% higher child asthma risk
“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.”
Seals: Gas flames generate twice the particulate matter during cooking
“We've seen from studies that gas flames themselves produce
Two times the amount of particulate matter, and these are harmful because they can penetrate deep into the lungs.”
Seals: Any CPSC gas stove regulations would apply only to new stoves
“Anything that would happen from the CPSC would relate to new stoves, new regulations, new protections on new stoves.”
Seals: One in four US homes is all-electric; Florida gas cooking is 9%
“Much of the South, and especially the Southeast, is already electrified, and we see that across the country, one in four homes is already all electric and I've seen this too, and in our study, we looked at Florida, for example, and we found that only nine perc…”
Seals: 80% of Illinois and 74% of California households with kids use gas
“So in Illinois, we found 80% of households with children cook with gas. In California, it was 74%.”
CPSC and EPA raised gas stove health concerns in the mid-1980s
“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…”
31 million Americans live in communities with all-electric building codes
“Already we're living in a moment where almost a hundred cities and communities have passed all electric required or all electric preferred bills, and we estimate that thirty-one million people are living in communities where this kind of new construction polic…”