Wendy Zuniga was busy in the kitchen over the holidays.
Between baking desserts and cooking on the stovetop, Zuniga spent hours preparing food at her home. On Christmas Eve, as she and her son spent hours taking pies and cookies in and out of the oven, an air quality monitor her counter tracked spiking levels of pollutants.
Cooking releases pollutants, especially when powered by natural gas, which is a source of nitrous oxides, carbon monoxide and formaldehyde. The health impacts of those pollutants are under growing scrutiny from scientists and health experts…