to the commission chair last month that over a third of American households cook with gas stoves, which "emit high levels of pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide , carbon monoxide , and fine particulate matter ."
The lawmakers stopped short of advocating for a ban, instead proposing the commission require that gas stoves be sold with range hoods and labels about exposure risks; issue mandatory performance standards; and launch a public education campaign., Richard Trumka Jr., a CPSC commissioner, suggested a ban may be coming.
"There is this misconception that if you want to do fine-dining kind of cooking it has to be done on gas," Trumka said. "It's a carefully manicured myth."Tuesday that Congress may "need to reevaluate" the CPSC.that "it'd be cool if elected officials cared as much about our generation and families as they did about... their kitchen appliances."
foodandwater Why are so many of those groups silent on the wood-burning issue too though? Gas is definitely bad and needs to go, but burning wood is much worse:
foodandwater Before eliminating gas appliances, the electric grid needs to be completely modernized. When our power goes out, here in California, without gas we would have no hot water or no stovetop cooking FOR DAYS! Pressure PG&E and others to modernize. Think first!
foodandwater I think this study was performed to grab headlines and bring notoriety to the authors. Looking for 'fly sh.t in the salt shaker. Have a little perspective. Most of the world uses wood. How clean is that?