Article 5PKV5 Your gas stove is polluting your own home. Go electric | Brady Seals

Your gas stove is polluting your own home. Go electric | Brady Seals

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Gas stoves can produce air pollution levels indoors that would be illegal outside

I traveled around the developing world for more than a decade seeing and studying first-hand the damage that wood and charcoal do to the lungs of people - mostly women and children - who use it for cooking. Nearly half the world's population cooks with solid fuels, and I was proud of my work to bring cleaner options and help prevent pneumonia, lung disease and other effects of breathing in smoke on a daily basis.

And when I got home from these trips, I would turn on my gas stove to cook meals - never once guessing that the invisible gas piped into my house, and its similarly invisible emissions, were also harmful.

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