Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study

Science Advances report also finds people of color and low-income residents in US disproportionately affected

Using a gas stove increases nitrogen dioxide exposure to levels that exceed public health recommendations, a new study shows. The report, published Friday in Science Advances, found that people of color and low-income residents in the US were disproportionately affected.

Indoor gas and propane appliances raise average concentrations of the harmful pollutant, also known as NO2, to 75% of the World Health Organization’s standard for indoor and outdoor exposure.

That means even if a person avoids exposure to nitrogen dioxide from traffic exhaust, power plants, or other sources, by cooking with a gas stove they will have already breathed in three-quarters of what is considered a safe limit.

“When you’re using a gas stove, you are burning fossil fuel directly in the home,” said Yannai Kashtan, lead author of the study and a PhD candidate at Stanford University. “Ventilation does help but it’s an imperfect solution and ultimately the best way is to reduce pollution at the source.”

RecursiveParadox,
@RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world avatar

Folks this is a garbage study. N=18, and then extrapolating the dangers based on aggregated stats of disease states?

OhmsLawn,

Yeah. I still want an induction stove, but this doesn’t look good.

RecursiveParadox,
@RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world avatar

There are plenty of valid reasons for wanting one. I’m not against them. They just don’t suit my particular use case, and I hate deliberately misleading studies.

GBU_28,

Same, I want both, with proper ventilation.

Gas for particular preparations where it’s traditional/ideal and induction for everything else

catloaf,

NO2 exposure hazards are already known, see the references in this study. This is only looking at NO2 production in homes, so I don’t think 18 is too small a sample size. It’s not like they’re trying to determine whether burning natural gas produces NO2, that’s a given. They’re looking at how much, how factors like hoods and airflow affect it, and how it goes throughout the house, not just in the kitchen.

RecursiveParadox,
@RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a fair point and needs to be explored. But the study does not do what it says on the tin.

Telodzrum,

TBH the sample is less concerning than the experimental design, and by a lot.

kumatomic,

Wait until you find out about wood burning stoves and firepits. What they do to air quality inside your home even when you don’t have either is scary

lud,

I’m surprised gas anything is still common in some countries. Here, gas is pretty rare nowadays and only some apartments in the biggest cities even have any gas lines.

Cqrd,

My new build house (built and bought last year) has a gas stove, furnace, dryer, and water heater. I’m in the US 🫠

lorty,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

What’s with the recent push in MSM against gas stoves?

Anarchie99,

Facts you don’t like are still facts.

afraid_of_zombies,

Lobbying by landlords. It is far cheaper for them to have individual apartments (with paper thing walls) that are responsible for their own heat vs a big concrete brownstone with a super efficient boiler moving energy around.

This is why the “study” explains how it “really” benefits the poor. You know the same way slave owners were altruistically helping their slaves. But the shills will lap it up. Who gives a shit right? The important thing is landlord capital not if poor people die because of a blackout.

JoshuaFalken,

Given the EPAs policy on natural gas leaks was to ask the gas companies if they’ve noticed anything, I’d say we’ve got some distance to go on stopping the sale of natural gas stoves.

Climate Town has a good video on this subject - and others - that might be a good watch.

Joelk111,

Also want to shout out Technology Connections’ video.

derf82,

The biggest problem with leaving gas stoves is all the older homes that simply are not equipped for them. Many homes with gas not only lack 240v 30a outlets in their kitchens, they may have only 100 or even 60 amp service and may not be able to even add such a circuit. Upgrading to electric could easily cost homeowners 5 figures.

Hildegarde,

Sounds like the solution is to increase the cost of gas until it costs more than 5 figures to continue using it.

hark,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

Putting the screws to poor people won’t improve the situation.

Hildegarde,

With governments refusing to take action to wean society off of fossil fuels, screwing poor people is an inevitability. The stuff is finite, eventually it runs out and the prices become unaffordable before the end.

GiddyGap,

Joe Manchin enters the chat

DoucheBagMcSwag,

Chud cocks shotgun

“Gonna take mah stove outta my cold dead hands.”

Sir_Kevin,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m guessing this is a non issue in a well ventilated area?

Soggy,

“Well-ventilated” being a higher standard than you’d probably expect, but yes. Standard over-range extractor isn’t doing enough.

inclementimmigrant,

It’s like you didn’t even read the pithy article much less the study behind it.

afraid_of_zombies,

“study”

inclementimmigrant,

I mean feel free to push back on any of the data the study provided. I mean I thought they could have done a better job with the effects of having a range hood but since that has been studied elsewhere and cited, I feel that it was acceptable with the scope they outlined.

afraid_of_zombies,

I really shouldn’t have to. As the study noted the homes they found with poor indoor quality had poor outdoor quality. Which means the oven really has little to do with it.

NOX is a product of incomplete diesel consumption. Do you want less NOX? Newer tighter regulations on trucks and give cops the power to pull over any truck with obvious air problems. After you do that let me know what the data in poor industrial areas shows. This whole study is garbage, it’s like proving that homes without air-conditioning are hotter than homes with it, int eh same area. Yeah kinda figured.

Oh and don’t give me any bullshit about how trucks can’t get NOX down. All ships flagged in the EU did it 6 years ago.

inclementimmigrant,

WTF are you talking about? You’re not even in the realm of the study anymore with your rantings here.

from the abstract:

Gas and propane stoves emit nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution indoors, but the exposures of different U.S. demographic groups are unknown. We estimate NO2 exposure and health consequences using emissions and concentration measurements from >100 homes, a room-specific indoor air quality model, epidemiological risk parameters, and statistical sampling of housing characteristics and occupant behavior. Gas and propane stoves increase long-term NO2 exposure 4.0 parts per billion volume on average across the United States, 75% of the World Health Organization’s exposure guideline. This increased exposure likely causes ~50,000 cases of current pediatric asthma from long-term NO2 exposure alone. Short-term NO2 exposure from typical gas stove use frequently exceeds both World Health Organization and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency benchmarks. People living in residences <800 ft2 in size incur four times more long-term NO2 exposure than people in residences >3000 ft2 in size; American Indian/Alaska Native and Black and Hispanic/Latino households incur 60 and 20% more NO2 exposure, respectively, than the national average.

They took samples before and after gas stoves were turned on inside various rooms in various houses and they state all of that in the study that that shit came from the stove and increased the levels of NO2 above WHO standards and not the outdoor environment. They’re stating that gas stoves are problematic especially in lower income dwellings.

Also FTFS:

Consistent with previous research (10, 24, 25), we find that combustion from gas and propane stoves represents a major source of long- and short-term NO2 exposure that can exceed U.S. and WHO guidelines just by using a stove, independent of any outdoor NO2 exposures.

So again WTF are you on about?

afraid_of_zombies,

Not convinced.

RecursiveParadox,
@RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world avatar

N=18. No control.

tiefling,

In NYC, this is actually a major concern since most kitchens don’t even have ventilation. Of my four apartments here, only one has had any form of ventilation in the kitchen.

Sir_Kevin,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m surprised that’s even legal.

tiefling, (edited )

Are you really? NY’s housing market is an absolute scam. Landlords are allowed to neglect their buildings until it gets so bad that the punishment for neglect is Riker’s since any fines get taken out on their tenants. Something like 80% of residential buildings are owned by corporations.

Sir_Kevin,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

True I forgot how broken the legal system is in NY.

Dorkyd68, (edited )

I get it. I do. But electric stoves are just meh. Gas burns quicker and more evenly. But if it comes down to it and I need to switch I will no problem. I just wish there was a solution to the cooking with gas issue as it cooks best imo

AProfessional,

Induction is the fastest and most even.

derf82,

They are also more expensive.

AProfessional,

Yeah, a lot of it is just artificial markup though. It’s a very simple technology.

hark,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t know what the full range is doing differently, but the portable induction cooktops are very cheap and they seem like they do the same thing. Doesn’t seem like an induction range would be more expensive than a regular electric range other than artificial markup like you said.

ShepherdPie,

We don’t have a gas stove but we do have a gas fireplace and water heater that have saved us a couple times now in winter when we’ve had prolonged power outages due to severe ice storms snapping half the trees in the area and taking all the power lines with them. This allowed us to have heat and hot water and if we had a gas stove, cooking as well.

Dorkyd68,

Yup yup. I’m in Oklahoma and am VERY familiar with ice storms that knock power out. Luckily I have a furnace that can run off of gas or electric, so I can still have heat so long as I power the outlet for said furnace off my truck. But the gas fireplace burns no matter the situation. My power got knocked out on the coldest day of the year last year. Wind chill was around -6 and gas literally saved my butt from freezing off

Bluefalcon,

I feel like this is considered common sense. Burning anything indoors increases exposure to bad chemicals. Well ventilated areas are required and we don’t have good regulation on that. Improve air quality with safe daily consumption and enforce it. Invest in public transportation, what is a safe level to reduce our exhaust output. People and companies then hold them responsible. : Common sense stuff

cymbal_king,

Love my new induction stove! Our old gas stove was leaking and could have blown up the house. We’ve noticed a lot less waste heat too, metal pan handles can be grabbed without a hot pad, the kitchen doesn’t heat up as much from cooking. And it heats up blazingly fast.

inclementimmigrant,

I’m looking to switch to a induction stove when my current gas stove dies. Do you happen to know what amperage was needed on yours?

cymbal_king,

Ours was 50 amp, which seems to be pretty common for 30-36in wide cooktops

treadful,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

What’s the response time like when reducing heat?

allrian,

It is nearly instantly. Heat is generated in the pot directly, not in/on the stove, so there is nothing else which stores the energy, like the plates in older ones.

cymbal_king,

The heat goes down immediately with most pans. Cast iron retains more heat though.

We went to the thrift store with a fridge magnet to buy our new pans, stainless steel lasts a long time

tamal3,

Can i ask what brand? And what the oven runs on – i assume electric? I’m interested, but have always used terrible electric coils or gas.

cymbal_king,

Yeah we went with the GE Profile 36in induction cooktop.

It’s more responsive than either gas or electric coils. The catch is you need pans that a fridge magnet will stick to. A trip to the thrift store with a magnet worked out for us.

AmidFuror,

ITT: Energy wasters (electric or gas) wrecking the environment by cooking food when they should be eating nothing but whole, raw, unprocessed vegetables. And maybe splurge on some fruit every now and then.

kandoh,

These rich ass holes want to make our gasoline less efficient by taking the lead out of it 😡😡😡

Son_of_dad,

This is just a dumb take

AmidFuror,

I held back. I was gonna go full fruitarian.

Also failed to mention locally-sourced.

afraid_of_zombies,

You have pretty strong opinions on how other people should live life. I wonder where you alone got the ability to determine how people should live. Did some lady in a lake award you a sword?

AmidFuror,

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

FabledAepitaph,

Yeah. Everybody is also wasting electricity on treadmills when they should be chasing deer down by foot to get their exercise lmao

AmidFuror,

That's cruel to the deer. They should be chasing eggplants.

afraid_of_zombies,

Anything to criminalize yet another thing. Rich pieces of crap flying around on private jets and not a single world from WHO.

cley_faye,

Unless you’re strapped behind a jet engine and breath that, you’re really, REALLY, offtopic.

blackbelt352,

Fuck off and actually look into what the WHO says about air pollution in regards to transportation.

who.int/…/ambient-(outdoor)-air-quality-and-healt…

And NIH is in on the research too: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888033/

afraid_of_zombies,

You fuck off they want my gas stove and ignore the people flying around on private jets

ieatpillowtags,

Nobody is taking your stove you absolute waste of air. Some of us prefer to understand the risks vs benefits, and studies like this are informative.

afraid_of_zombies,

Yes person attacks are very convincing

eskimofry,

Lol you took a WHO study personally and are complaining when people are pissed when you insult them?

afraid_of_zombies,

That sounds about right. I saw a “study” that was designed to justify a policy, took it personally as a person who will be directly impacted by the policy, and yeah got upset when the best argument presented was a personal attack.

Now you going to start demanding some accountability from the people flying on private jets and yachts who cause more air pollution issues per hour than a small car centric meat eating town does in a year or are you going to find ways to support landlords not having to give free heat to tenants? I am asking to be polite btw, I know which you are going to do.

eskimofry,

who will be directly impacted by the policy, and yeah got upset when the best argument presented was a personal attack.

You deliberately ignored or hand-waved away all the adverse health effects of Gas Stoves and when people called you out on that, you’re saying it’s a personal attack?

Now you going to start demanding some accountability from the people flying on private jets and yachts who cause more air pollution issues per hour than a small car centric meat eating town does in a year

Who said I wasn’t? Two things can be done at the same time. You’re saying “I refuse to change unless everybody else changes” which sounds asinine.

or are you going to find ways to support landlords not having to give free heat to tenants?

It’s not my responsibility to innovate for your business. You’re supposed to be the business owner who has to be accountable for the impacts of your product on the society and the environment. After all you take all the profits but you don’t want any of the responsibility?

I am asking to be polite btw, I know which you are going to do.

Just like you assumed that phasing out LPG stoves is bad only because it forces you to actually do work to add value to your customers

TigrisMorte,

"'Bumma commin' fer ma stove!!!!1!!1!!!!!!", in 5, 4, 3, ...

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