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"At the end of December 2022, when Americans were getting ready to spend hours
indoors with family and friends — often in their kitchens, preparing holiday
meals on the stovetop — a new study reignited a decades-old debate.
The peer-reviewed research by the environmental think tank RMI (formerly Rocky
Mountain Institute), the University of Sydney, and the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine estimated that “nearly 13 percent of childhood asthma cases in the
United States can be linked to having a gas stove in the home.”
The backlash was swift and fierce. The American Gas Association (AGA) trade
group called the findings “not substantiated by sound science,” and added that
“any discussion” of a possible connection between asthma and the use of gas for
cooking was “reckless.”
But this latest attempt to shut down discussion of the health impact of stoves
is nothing new. It has been building for several years alongside revelations
that AGA has used paid influencer campaigns to defend gas stoves and waged
state-by-state, city-by-city lobbying offensives against initiatives to replace
gas furnaces, water heaters, and stoves with electric-powered devices aimed at
reducing pollution linked to climate change.
It’s less widely known that the gas industry has long sponsored its own
research into the problem of indoor air pollution from gas stoves. Now, newly
discovered documents reveal that the American Gas Association was studying the
health and indoor pollution risks from gas stoves as far back as the early
1970s — that they knew much more, at a far earlier date, than has been
previously documented."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
