Biden Admin Considers Banning Gas Stoves over Health Concerns – Used in about 40% of homes in the U.S. – A federal agency may look to ban gas stoves over concern about the release of pollutants that can cause health and respiratory problems, according to a new report. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to open public comment on the dangers of gas stoves sometime this winter. The commission could set standards on emissions from the gas stoves, or even look to ban the manufacture or import of the appliances, commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg News. “This is a hidden hazard,” Trumka told the outlet. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”
Analysis: No, new study does not link gas stoves with asthma in children – ‘Classic Junk Science’ – Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com: “It’s not actual research. It is a meta-analysis of previously published (and ignored) studies. The authors did a literature search for previous epidemiologic studies on gas stoves and asthma in kids and then just mixed those results together. This is a bogus technique for a number of reasons, including publications bias in the component studies — i.e., studies with null results aren’t published.Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. rips gas stove fears as ‘loathing of modern society’: ‘If you really care about emissions & not politics, then focus on cooking with oils’ or using ‘candles & incense’
Professor Roger Pielke Jr.: “Cooking indoors = emissions. The type of stove matters to emissions rates If you really care about emissions and not politics, then focus on cooking with oils = emissions ~10x of gas stoves. Want to regulate something to reduce indoor emissions? Cooking oil! Olive, corn etc. And ~10x cooking oils? Candles and incense.”
WaPo claim: “Scientists say a growing body of research shows that gas stoves pose a threat to the planet.”
Pielke Jr. mocks: “And here I always thought it’d be an asteroid or something.”
The study results, including the component studies, are weak statistical associations — i.e., noise range correlations.
Asthma is an allergic disease. There are no allergens in natural gas. So the study has no biological plausibility. No one knows what causes asthma in children and so competing causes could not be ruled out.
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Seriously? The Consumer Product Safety Commission is seriously going to consider banning gas stoves because a single meta-analysis, published without code, published without an available dataset, with a single month of peer review, that came out in a journal 19 days ago? https://t.co/xTJevvXFW6 pic.twitter.com/HUzE1DedTZ
— Cody Moser (@LTF_01) January 9, 2023
The meta-analysis the Biden admin wants to ban — without a vote — has a huge undeclared conflict of interest by conflict. The climate activist group ‘carbon free buildings’ RMI or Rocky Mountain Institute is listed as one of the lead authors on the new study.
“No conflict of interest”
RMI’s (Rocky Mountain Institute) of Boulder, Colorado Board of Trustees features former Obama Climate Envoy Todd Stern on its board of trustees.
Todd Stern – “Program & Strategy, point trustee” – RMI’s website explains, “Todd Stern was ‘a leading architect of the Obama administration’s international climate change strategy,’ according to Politico. Stern was appointed to the position of US Special Envoy on Climate Change on January 26, 2009, by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He was the chief US negotiator of the successful Paris Agreement.”
In what universe is having Obama’s climate envoy Todd Stern’s affiliated group writing a study that less than three weeks later prompts talk of a federal ban on gas stoves is “no conflict of interest.” See: 2020: Still clueless after all these years: Obama’s former UN ‘climate envoy’ Todd Stern touts ‘how to put climate change at the center of U.S. foreign policy’ – Todd Stern on climate change: “The time to act is now.”
The RMI website details how the group has been “Calling out gas stoves’ health harms” since 2020. “A report by RMI, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Mothers Out Front, and Sierra Club showed that gas stoves can harm health, such as flaring kids’ asthma, in addition to contributing to global warming,” according to the website.
RMI, the co-author of the gas stove study, pushes climate fears in all of their work. “Our addiction to fossil fuels puts our planet and the people on it at risk. But this is a problem we’re committed to solving,” declares the RMI website. RMI also boasts, “We’re making a difference. HELPING CHINA ACHIEVE ITS CARBON NEUTRALITY GOAL EARLIER – CUTTING ENERGY USE IN BUILDINGS – REDUCING THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF PERSONAL MOBILITY.”
10-Year Tipping Point
RMI’s video details their climate activist agenda: “We have less than 10 years to act to avert the disastrous effects of climate change.” RMI envisions a “carbon-free grid” and seeks “to take urgent and impactful action now.”
RMI also brags about it’s partnership with China. “RMI is partnering with the government of China to help it profitably exceed national energy and emissions targets, dramatically cut its dependence on fossil fuels, and set a pathway for the developing world to follow,” the website explains.
RMI’s website also states it is “Uniting around the Paris Climate Accord.”
This “bombshell” study on the possible harms of gas stoves was funded by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) – a WEF partner that makes money off of consulting on low-carbon solutions and pushing green energy transitions.
Just saying. https://t.co/xEaexlFXND pic.twitter.com/tBmHewRaeA
— Andy Lee – Special Rebel Rapporteur (@RealAndyLeeShow) January 12, 2023
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In protest of the suggested ban on gas stoves, I’m staying taped to this stove forever. pic.twitter.com/mytHWml7rl
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) January 9, 2023
Junk. We have used gas stoves for hundreds of years. There is no correlation between an increase in childhood asthma and their use. This is an overreach based on a subjective hypothesis from a bad study. More fodder in the war on gas that will hurt low-income homes and small biz. pic.twitter.com/i3mOlT5T9D
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) January 9, 2023
My guiding duty is protecting consumer health and safety. Gas stoves can emit dangerous level of toxic chemicals – even when not in use – and @USCPSC will consider all approaches to regulation. Thank you @AriNatter and @business for excellent journalism. https://t.co/hjJCPWmBP7
— Commissioner Rich Trumka Jr. (@TrumkaCPSC) January 9, 2023
Thanks for your interest!
To be clear, CPSC isn't coming for anyone's gas stoves. Regulations apply to new products.
For Americans who CHOOSE to switch from gas to electric, there is support available – Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act which includes a $840 rebate. https://t.co/fcmWMSSfE5
— Commissioner Rich Trumka Jr. (@TrumkaCPSC) January 9, 2023
My first thought is how will I heat my tortillas???!!! Biden so racist.
This war on gas stoves is (no surprise) a war on the poor & working class since cooking w/ gas is cheaper. Biden Administration always looking for new was to make Americans poorer! https://t.co/WFsZBXyffm
— Rachel Campos-Duffy (@RCamposDuffy) January 9, 2023
It's not the stove, it's the ventilation. Even electric unventilated cooking can cause potentially harmful fumes. Outside air ventilation is key. Electric stoves have other dangers unable to tell if burner is still hot, new glass tops can crack, from pans, cold liquid $$$$ repair
— Cui Bono? (@Rmfire64) January 10, 2023
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Background:
Ban gas stoves to stop methane emissions?! A 2022 study found that gas stoves are constantly leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas, even when they’re turned off…Even when gas stoves aren’t running, they annually release about 2.6 million tons of methane according to a recent study.
Reality Check: ‘Methane: The Irrelevant Greenhouse Gas’
Physicist Dr. Tom Sheahen: ‘Methane: The Irrelevant Greenhouse Gas’ – ‘Water vapor has already absorbed the very same infrared radiation that Methane might have absorbed’– ‘The tiny increases in methane associated with cows may elicit a few giggles, but it absolutely cannot be the basis for sane regulations or national policy.’
Study: ‘Methane emissions have a negligible impact’ on climate
Have a gas stove? How to reduce pollution that may harm health: Cooking with gas stoves creates nitrogen dioxide and releases additional tiny airborne particles known as PM2.5, both of which are lung irritants. Nitrogen dioxide has been linked with childhood asthma. … Cooking and baking done with gas appliances can give off high concentrations of nitrogen dioxide.
Is Your Gas Range a Health Risk? Consumer Reports’ tests found high levels of potentially dangerous nitrogen oxide gases – But that beloved flame also poses growing concerns, for both the health of users and of the planet. One particular, and new, issue: nitrogen oxides, or NOx. These are gases that, outdoors, come primarily from vehicles and power plants and that can cause some of the haze associated with smog.
Climate activists want to get rid of gas stoves, whether you like it or not
Why Eco-Warriors’ Bid To Ban Natural Gas Appliances Is Wrongheaded
New study, published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Scientific American: “In the U.S., people eat more protein than they need to. And though it might not be bad for human health, this excess does pose a problem for the country’s waterways. The nation’s wastewater is laden with the leftovers from protein digestion: nitrogen compounds that can feed toxic algal blooms and pollute the air and drinking water. …
Once it enters the environment, the nitrogen in urea can trigger a spectrum of ecological impacts known as the “nitrogen cascade.” Under certain chemical conditions, and in the presence of particular microbes, urea can break down to form gases of oxidized nitrogen. These gases reach the atmosphere, where nitrous oxide (N2O) can contribute to warming via the greenhouse effect and nitrogen oxides (NOx) can cause acid rain.” … Patricia Glibert, an oceanographer at the University of Maryland, suggests consumers could switch to a “demitarian” diet—an approach that focuses on reducing the consumption of meat and dairy..”
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Climate Depot’s Morano: “They will not give up. They will continue to scare you about climate change in every, and any conceivable way. Now when you pee, you are allegedly a human pollution machine that is heating up the planet. The voiding of your bladder must be curtailed for the sake of the planet! So says ‘The Science’!”
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Professor Roger Pielke Jr.: “Cooking indoors = emissions. The type of stove matters to emissions rates If you really care about emissions and not politics, then focus on cooking with oils = emissions ~10x of gas stoves. Want to regulate something to reduce indoor emissions? Cooking oil! Olive, corn etc. And ~10x cooking oils? Candles and incense.”
“So my current view is that the brief excitement about gas stoves is part of the cultural movement against fossil fuels & is not in fact about indoor air pollution. More generally, there is a phenomenon at work here I can’t quite articulate. Some combination of loathing of modern society, anti-humanity & quasi-religiosity. Fossil fuels make modern life possible. Yes, they have downsides,” Pielke Jr. wrote.
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Epidemiologist questions gas stove study: “The biggest single piece of research on the subject that I could find included in the meta-analysis found NO association! That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, but it’s not some settled fact that the risk increase is a specific number.” … “In practice, we rarely can attribute 100% of the increased risk in large observational studies to the exposure. What you usually find for something like asthma is that the various causes overlap/compound.” … “To be clear, I’m not saying these studies are bad, or that the meta-analysis is wrong What I’m saying is that all of this is UNCERTAIN.” … “Personally, I would phrase the findings of this research as “gas stoves are associated with 6.3-19.3% of current childhood asthma” rather than arguing that this fraction of asthma is necessarily caused by gas stoves.”
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Alex Epstein: ‘Calls to ban gas stoves are anti-science, anti-freedom, & anti-energy’ – Alex Epstein: ‘The 12.7% claim is a distortion of science…Whenever someone offers you “science,” not to inform your voluntary choices but to impose a ban on you, you can be confident that what they are calling science is a distortion.” … “Any confident claim that something causes specifically X% of asthma is BS. Asthma is a cluster of symptoms that researchers do not have a clear causal picture of. As NIH states, “The exact cause of asthma is unknown, and the causes may be different from person to person.”
“Strong evidence stoves are not a leading concern for asthma: In the US, both CA, a state with one of the highest gas stove uses, and ND, a state with one of the lowest gas stove uses, have some of the lowest asthma rates.”
“Observe that CDC data shows that between 1980 and the mid-1990s, asthma rates almost doubled, despite a significant decline in air pollution. This is an *anti-correlation* that contradicts the narrative that asthma is mainly caused by pollution…Honest scientists recognize that what causes asthma is unknown and might be many factors. Ambient air pollution was long blamed for asthma, but the data for ambient pollution and asthma anti-correlate in Western countries.” … “The gas stove banners are not honest scientists…The lead author of the paper used to argue for a gas stove ban is affiliated with the @RockyMtnInst, headed by Amory Lovins—an anti-energy ‘energy expert’ who has said: ‘It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy.'”
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New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, during her state of the state address Monday, announced plans to ban gas heating on the construction of new buildings over the next several years. … “I’m proposing a plan to end the sale of new fossil powered heating equipment by 2030 by calling for construction of – all new construction needs to be zero emission – starting in 2025 for small buildings and 2028 for large buildings,” Hochul said. “And we’re taking these steps now because climate change remains the greatest threat to our planet but also to our children and our grandchildren.” ..
The zero-emission new construction and the phase out of the sale of new fossil fuel heating equipment are part of the governor’s ambitious new package of building decarbonization initiatives. … Hochul’s proposal will create the Energy Affordability Guarantee to ensure participating New Yorkers never pay more than 6% of their incomes on electricity. She announced $200 million in relief for utility bills for up to 800,000 New York households earning under $75,000 a year that are not currently eligible for the state’s utility discount program.
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Climate Depot’s Marc Morano: “We have reached peak insantiy. Americans wake up every day to find some unexpected executive order or a bureaucratic edict that has once again bypassed democracy, taking away their freedoms or choices. NY Gov. Hochul is the latest example as she has just announced that she plans to ban gas heating in new homes and buildings construction to stop ‘climate change’ which she claims is the ‘greatest threat to our planet.’ Just a few days earlier, we found out that an unelected bureaucrat at the Consumer Product Safety Commission? has decided to ban gas stoves. More mandates with no vote of democracy. See: Biden admin seeks ban on gas stoves based on single meta-analysis co-authored by climate activist group seeking ‘carbon free buildings’
Just like gas-powered car bans, restrictions on meat eating, and restrictions on high-yield agriculture to meet Net Zero goals, the climate agenda is following the COVID template by mandating consequential decisions on our lives without the consent of the governed. No one voted for gas car bans. No one voted for meat restrictions. No one voted for lockdowns or mask mandates or vax mandates Our ruling class’s new message to the public — who they view derisively as the masses — is simple: ‘We need no stinkin legislating.
All of these climate-inspired bans are nothing more than climate virtue signaling. All of these government gas bans — which no one voted for — will do nothing but increase energy costs, especially for the poorest in the U.S. Natural gas has been the reason the USA has led the world in reducing CO2 emissions. New Yorkers will suffer with more government mandates, and the climate (& global CO2 emissions) will not be impacted one ounce.
Biden’s Latest Move To ‘Buy’ 2024 Votes – This move will help Biden to further endear himself to the “green energy” leftists who represent one of the most significant voting blocks in the Democratic Party.
So after many in the media worked overtime to deem the “Biden is banning gas stoves” story as a conspiracy theory, we find out:
1) The Biden admin had internal memos planning a ban of gas stoves
2) Corrupt energy @SecGranholm met with the dark money group pushing for it https://t.co/x1s3LKKYr5
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) February 10, 2023
