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.""
@Fascinatorfun
We had smoke and CO detectors fitted when our house was rewired.
We woke up one night to the sound of alarms going off. We searched for a fire, couldn't find one, then remembered that we had CO detectors as well.
We turned off the oil-fired boiler, opened windows and doors and waited outside until we were sure the house had been thoroughly ventilated. Boiler fault.
We were lucky - without the detectors we would have died.