Within the past few years, scientists have found that gas stoves are a major source of air pollution within homes, responsible for almost 13% of all childhood asthma in the United States. But a new study from Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability and PSE Healthy Energy, a nonprofit research institute, warns that these appliances are even worse for our health than previously believed.
“This study presents data that is deeply troubling to anyone concerned about the health of their families in their homes,” Gaurab Basu, a primary care physician and the director of education and policy at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, wrote in an email. Basu was not involved in the study.
The research, which was published on June 15 in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology, was the first to focus on the relationship between gas stoves and benzene, a carcinogen.
— source yaleclimateconnections.org | Sarah Wesseler | 26 Jun 2023