Science Advances report also finds people of color and low-income residents in US disproportionately affected

Science Advances report also finds people of color and low-income residents in US disproportionately affected

Using a gas stove increases nitrogen dioxide exposure to levels that exceed public health recommendations, a new study shows. The report, published Friday in Science Advances, found that people of color and low-income residents in the US were disproportionately affected.

Indoor gas and propane appliances raise average concentrations of the harmful pollutant, also known as NO2, to 75% of the World Health Organization’s standard for indoor and outdoor exposure.

That means even if a person avoids exposure to nitrogen dioxide from traffic exhaust, power plants, or other sources, by cooking with a gas stove they will have already breathed in three-quarters of what is considered a safe limit.

“When you’re using a gas stove, you are burning fossil fuel directly in the home,” said Yannai Kashtan, lead author of the study and a PhD candidate at Stanford University. “Ventilation does help but it’s an imperfect solution and ultimately the best way is to reduce pollution at the source.”

  • @eskimofry
    1•1 month ago

    who will be directly impacted by the policy, and yeah got upset when the best argument presented was a personal attack.

    You deliberately ignored or hand-waved away all the adverse health effects of Gas Stoves and when people called you out on that, you’re saying it’s a personal attack?

    Now you going to start demanding some accountability from the people flying on private jets and yachts who cause more air pollution issues per hour than a small car centric meat eating town does in a year

    Who said I wasn’t? Two things can be done at the same time. You’re saying “I refuse to change unless everybody else changes” which sounds asinine.

    or are you going to find ways to support landlords not having to give free heat to tenants?

    It’s not my responsibility to innovate for your business. You’re supposed to be the business owner who has to be accountable for the impacts of your product on the society and the environment. After all you take all the profits but you don’t want any of the responsibility?

    I am asking to be polite btw, I know which you are going to do.

    Just like you assumed that phasing out LPG stoves is bad only because it forces you to actually do work to add value to your customers