Gas & Your Health
The gas-fired appliances in our homes (e.g. furnaces, hot water heaters, stoves and some clothes dryers) release pollutants inside homes that are the same pollutants found in car exhaust—and children with growing lungs are especially vulnerable to the harmful health impacts.
Replace your gas stove with electric or induction stove.
Replace a gas water heater with electric heat pump water heater.
Replace your gas furnace with electric heat pump.
Replace your gas clothes dryer with electric dryer
Gas appliances expose families to levels of air pollution that would be illegal if measured by the EPA outdoors.
Children who live in a home where a gas stove is used are 42% increased risk of having current asthma, a 24% increased risk of life- time asthma and an overall 32% increased risk of having current and lifetime asthma.
Gas stoves have anywhere between 50 - 400 percent higher concentrations of nitrogen dioxide than homes with an electric stove or oven. Just 45 minutes of cooking on a gas stove can produce pollution levels that would be illegal outdoors.
Gas Infrastructure Endangers the Health & Safety of Communities
Our gas infrastructure is explosive and endangers our communities: On average, over the past 5 years, every 4 days there was a gas pipeline incident that killed someone, sent someone to the hospital, and/or caused a fire and/or explosion.
