The United States of America may receive new regulations concerning gas stoves by 2023, a major fulfilment of arbitrary international climate goals.
Richard Trumka, Commissioner U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), said that his agency is looking into perhaps slapping on new regulations on the sale and use of gas-powered cooktops, claiming that they can cause health effects in young children such as asthma. The Commission will begin seeking out information from the public in March, which could then result in regulations not long thereafter.
Richard Meyer, vice president of energy markets, analysis and standards for The American Gas Association said in a written statement:
AGA is eager to submit for the record objective technical information related to the safety of gas cooking appliances and ways to reduce cooking process emissions — which are produced both by cooking with electricity and cooking with gas — from impacting indoor air quality.
However AGA published an article on December 7th titled “How Natural Gas Bans Hurt Communities and Customers,” where the group explained that such outright bans “can make housing more expensive,” especially with “electric homes [that] require expensive retrofits, potentially driving up the overall cost of housing significantly.” Year-over-year energy and heating costs would rise by the thousands, they claim.
