Californians should consider the air pollution not only outdoors but also within their homes, a new study says.
California had the highest percentage of households cooking with natural gas nationwide in 2020, with approximately 70% using flames instead of electric burners. Now, Stanford scientists and their colleagues have investigated how much those gas and propane stoves drive up total exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant they link to health issues like asthma and lung cancer.
In the study, published in the journal PNAS Nexus on Dec. 2, the researchers determined that swapping gas for electric stoves would reduce nitrogen dioxide exposure by about 25% on average in the U.S…