Cooking with a gas stove in your kitchen can emit as much benzene into a home as second-hand tobacco smoke, depending on ventilation and the size of the house, according to new research from Stanford University conducted in part in metro Denver.
A February report by Colorado-based RMI, which studies energy use and its environmental impact, connected gas stoves to childhood asthma. That report received criticism for its research methods and led oil and gas industry leaders,Research into the health and environmental impacts of gas-fueled appliances is not new, but this year’s criticism of gas stoves launched another front in the culture wars, which intensified after a commissioner with the U.S.
Most of the research has centered on the health impacts of cooking with gas and whether toxic compounds found in natural gas have adverse health impacts on people. Those same harmful compounds that can cause human health problems, though, also contribute to air pollution, which quickens the pace of global climate change.
Conservative politicians and climate-change deniers fired back. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives filed two bills aimed at preventing any bans on the stoves.
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