When Robert Jackson began studying greenhouse gas exposure inside homes a few years ago, a team of fellow Stanford researchers camped out in his kitchen for a few days to monitor the emissions coming from his own gas stove.
They ran tests with all the windows closed and again with all of them open, and with air filters on and off. They turned on three burners at once, and cooked with and without the stove hood running.
The results of the study convinced Jackson that gas stoves are a significant public health problem. And they compelled him to replace his own gas stove with an electric one…