Industry Knew—and Hid—Dangers of #GasStoves Over 50 Years Ago
Brett WilkinsMar 07, 2023
"Newly uncovered documents published last week by #DeSmog reveal that the leading #GasIndustry trade group knew over 50 years ago that cooking with gas stoves could harm human #health and tried to cover up the evidence.
"The DeSmog revelations regarding the #AmericanGasAssociation (AGA) came as the gas industry is pushing back against climate and public health advocates' efforts to ban new gas stoves amid mounting scientific evidence that the appliances threaten the warming planet and people's health.
"Recent studies—which, among other things, showed that #NitrogenDioxide, #CarbonMonoxide, and ultrafine particles produced by gas stoves cause a range of health problems, including 1 in 8 U.S. cases of childhood #asthma—sparked fast and furious backlash from the gas industry and its congressional boosters.
"'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,' wrote DeSmog's Rebecca John. '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.""
@NaturaArtisMagistra@DoomsdaysCW Pretty sure you can easily vent a gas furnace. Gas stoves on the other hand have the burning right in a closed space right in your face. Gas furnaces are bad but unless they are poorly installed(which I'm sure is too often) they don't cause nearly the damage to the body as gas stoves. Also they pushed and idolized gas stoves to get people to politically push for gas infrastructure to ensure people would use gas furnaces. Stop new gas stoves and the gas furnaces will stop being built too.
@anubis2814@NaturaArtisMagistra I Anubis2814 is right about the furnace. But how does one escape fine particulate matter and other gasses that are emitted from a stove? A friend of mine who has asthma found her symptoms improved after moving into an apartment without a gas stove.
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