Don't take our natural gas stove away - Jan 19

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Don't take our natural gas stove away - Jan 19

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Debunking the research behind the gas-stove hysteria. National Review.
Steve Everley, managing director in Energy & Natural Resources sector at FTI, writes: Even a cursory read through recent studies linking natural-gas appliances to health hazards would uncover fundamental if not disqualifying flaws. Seemingly out of nowhere, the gas stove has become front-page news. But this was no random coincidence. The full-court press to scare people about a perfectly safe kitchen appliance found in nearly 40 percent of U.S. homes and a ubiquitous feature of restaurants nationwide has been years in the making and is part of a carefully campaign.

Scientists hit back at gas industry for twisting stove study. E&E News.
The furor last week over a potential ban of gas stoves sparked rants of protest and partisan posturing. But one voice was not heard amid the clamor: the researcher whose study the gas industry seized on to tout the safety of gas stoves. He says his research is being misused. Bert Brunekreef, a professor of environmental epidemiology at the Netherlands’ Utrecht University, is the co-author of a 2013 study looking at associations between the use of different cooking fuels and asthma in 47 countries. The research, which was published in The Lancet as part of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood, found that open fire cooking did increase the prevalence of asthma in young children, but “detected no evidence of an association between the use of gas as a cooking fuel and either asthma symptoms or asthma diagnosis.” The finding has been seized on by the American Gas Association and American Public Gas Association in recent weeks as a way to undercut calls for a federal ban on gas stoves, as well as more recent research that has linked gas stove use to asthma in children. But Brunekreef said, “That’s not a good use of our study.”
Dan Steffens
Energy Prospectus Group
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