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May 10, 2024
Heather Souvaine Horn
The Really Grim Part About Gas Stoves
Lower-income people living in smaller spaces are especially affected by the toxic gases these ranges leak.
June 19, 2023
Eleanor Cummins
Indoor Air Quality is the Next Big Climate Worry
Indoor spaces contain, on average, higher concentrations of pollution than outdoor air in communities across the U.S.
June 9, 2023
Heather Souvaine Horn
My Personal Gas Stove Saga
Improving indoor air quality is harder than it sounds.
June 7, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Meet the GOP’s Pro–Childhood Asthma Caucus
Congressional Republicans are trying to pass legislation defending gas stoves from regulatory oversight.
April 21, 2023
Heather Souvaine Horn
The Real Reason Gas Stoves Are Controversial Now
Municipalities have been banning gas hookups for years. There’s a reason the backlash only went national very recently.
February 27, 2023
Liza Featherstone
Here’s Proof That Gas Stoves Are Overrated
At the end of a study that gave people induction stoves to try, not a single person wanted their gas stove back.
February 10, 2023
Heather Souvaine Horn
Finally, a Gas Stove Proposal That Cares About Poor People
The District of Columbia City Council is considering a bill that will allow low- and moderate-income households to switch out their gas stoves—if they so choose—for free.
February 1, 2023
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The Politics of Everything
The Fiery Gas Stove Wars
How a public health issue erupted into political performance art
January 27, 2023
Heather Souvaine Horn
You Can Pry My Lead Baby Food From My Weedkiller-Covered Hands
Conservatives are hell-bent on defending gas stoves. Why not other poisonous household products?
January 25, 2023
Liza Featherstone
The People Who Really Get Screwed by Gas Stoves
Indoor air pollution should be a tenants’ rights matter, not a culture war among well-off homeowners.
January 18, 2023
Ketan Joshi
The Dawn of Gas Stove Denialism
The panic over Joe Biden coming to steal your gas stove was the start of an incredibly dumb but deadly serious culture war.
January 13, 2023
Alex Shephard
How Right-Wing Gasbags Cooked Up a Fantastically Dumb Culture War
The incredible story of how conservatives took a consumer product warning about stoves and fried their brains to a crisp.
October 28, 2022
Heather Souvaine Horn
Are Gas Stoves the New Cigarettes?
A new study suggests that gas stoves are poisoning people in more ways than even the experts knew. The question now is whether the gas industry has been aware of this for years.
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