{"id":155156,"date":"2023-01-11T06:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T12:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-us-federal-agency-is-considering-a-ban-on-gas-stoves"},"modified":"2023-01-11T06:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T12:22:38","slug":"a-us-federal-agency-is-considering-a-ban-on-gas-stoves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-us-federal-agency-is-considering-a-ban-on-gas-stoves","title":{"rendered":"A US federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-us-federal-agency-is-considering-a-ban-on-gas-stoves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I imagine, this could hurt a lot of people. This could easily be resolved with better ventilation and planning; not really outright banning.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves, a source of indoor pollution linked to childhood asthma.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-09\/us-safety-agency-to-consider-ban-on-gas-stoves-amid-health-fears?leadSource=uverify%20wall\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>, a US Consumer Product Safety commissioner said gas stove usage is a \u201chidden hazard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny option is on the table. Products that can\u2019t be made safe can be banned,\u201d agency commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg. The report said the agency plans \u201cto take action\u201d to address the indoor pollution caused by stoves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine, this could hurt a lot of people. This could easily be resolved with better ventilation and planning; not really outright banning. A federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves, a source of indoor pollution linked to childhood asthma. In an interview with Bloomberg, a US Consumer Product Safety commissioner said gas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}