Gas stoves release benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia.
of homes and buildings. There’s a growing body of evidence on the risks gas stoves pose to public health and the environment. The fossil fuel industry, however, has pushed back hard against policies to shift to clean energy by playing on people’s attachment to gas stoves.
“Seeing the concentrations of pollutants rise so quickly in my own home and thinking about that occurring day after day after day was a motivation to change,” Rob Jackson, Stanford professor and principal investigator for this research, said in a press briefing on the paper today. He said the research prompted him to get rid of his gas stove after testing the study’s methods in his own house.
“Seeing the concentrations of pollutants rise so quickly in my own home and thinking about that occurring day after day after day was a motivation to change.”to it from tobacco smoke, wildfires, and tailpipe emissions. “I really am hard-pressed to think of a more powerful chemical cause of leukemia than benzene,” hematologist / oncologist Jan Kirsch said in the press briefing . Benzene happens to be more potent than most other carcinogens at lower exposure levels, she noted.
This study is the first to calculate indoor pollution of benzene caused by gas stoves, according to its authors. They studied 87 homes in California and Colorado with gas and propane stoves in 2022. In about 30 percent of kitchens tested, they found that benzene emissions from a single gas burner set on high or a gas oven set to 350 degrees Fahrenheit created higher concentrations of benzene than the averages for secondhand tobacco smoke.
Benzene even wafted from kitchens all the way to bedrooms, the study found. In bedrooms, unhealthy concentrations of benzene lingered for hours, even after the stove was turned off. In one house, bedroom benzene levels were comparable to pollution events near schools in
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