CPSC is looking to ban gas stoves, Crazy Insane

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CPSC is looking to ban gas stoves 


“Products that can’t be made safe can be banned,” says Richard Trumka Jr., one of five commissioners on the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The CPSC is looking to ban gas stoves on the grounds that they emit pollutants like nitrogen dioxide that are linked to respiratory illness. Advocates of a ban are pointing to a recent study blaming gas stoves on 12% of childhood asthma cases. [Given everything that’s happened in the last three years, you can be forgiven for casting the side eye toward anyform of medical research.]

Trumka’s statement to Bloomberg News might be nothing more than a trial balloon — to see how badly it would get roasted on social media. Or sauteed, as the case may be…


New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says, “Hold my beer.” She’s proposing a statewide ban on natgas appliances and heating in new buildings.

“Buildings are the largest source of emissions in our state, accounting for a third of our greenhouse gas output,” she said in her state-of-the-state address yesterday. Bloomberg says it would be the first statewide ban in the country, to be implemented between 2025–2030.

Maybe this scheme would work, kinda-sorta, in New York City — where, in fact, a ban on natgas in new construction is being phased in over the next four years.



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