Burning gas in home furnaces and stoves exposes families to pollutants that have been linked to serious health risks, including decreased lung function, asthma attacks, nervous system damage, heart attacks, strokes, and cancer, as well as premature death.
Gas in Our Homes
What the Gas Companies Don’t Want You To Know
Gas companies and their trade associations are spreading disinformation by promoting unsafe gas stoves, placing dishonest, pro-gas ads on social media, and downplaying gas appliances’ threat to public health.
43 percent of adults and 35 percent of children with asthma in Minnesota report gas cooking as an asthma trigger. 62 percent of Americans are regularly exposed to dangerous levels of pollutants from gas stoves.
Beyond the air we breathe, fossil gas pipeline accidents resulted in 860 injuries, 195 fatalities, and more than $4.2 billion in property damage in the U.S. over the past 15 years.