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01/18/23

...replacing gas stoves with electric

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Gas stoves can harm your health — and scientists have known that for decades

By Jonathan Lambert 01/18/23

The United States’ never-ending culture wars have moved to the kitchen, as Republicans turn up the heat on nascent efforts to shift Americans away from…

The Boston Globe

The gas stove culture war, explained

By Dharna Noor 01/19/23

A common household appliance has sparked the nation’s latest culture war. Gas stoves were deemed dangerous in a slew of recent studies, fueling chatter about…

HEAT

Why gas stoves actually matter

By Emily Atkin 01/19/23

In last week’s HEATED chat, paid subscribers and I were discussing (what else?) gas stoves, when a reader chimed in to express frustration. “I yearn…

climate solutions

Gas stove talk gets weird

01/19/23

Scientists have been calling attention to the health risks associated with gas stoves since the 1970s. But a new study prodded a government agency to…

The Washington Post

I bought an induction stove. Then the power went out.

By Tove Danovich 01/18/23

I had been touting the benefits of my new induction stove to all my friends since I switched from gas about a year ago. Water…

The Guardian

Are gas stoves really dangerous? What we know about the science

By Brian Kahn 01/15/23

Gas stoves are a hot topic. A new study linked them to one in eight childhood asthma cases, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said…

The Atlantic

May the Best Stove Win

By Jacob Stern 01/14/23

Somehow, in a few short days, gas stoves have gone from a thing that some people cook with to, depending on your politics, either a…

business insider

Chef Alison Roman loves her induction stove. Twitter has so many questions

By Catherine Boudreau 01/14/23

Electric-induction stoves got celebrity-chef endorsements following a controversy over gas stoves. nduction stoves are popular in Europe, but unfamiliar to many Americans. "Can you toast…

Politico

What the right’s gas stove freakout was really about

By Alex Guillén and Ben Lefebvre 01/14/23

No, President Joe Biden isn’t coming for your gas stove. Republicans and conservative pundits have spent the past week nonetheless expressing alarm about the fate…

Fox 13

Push to phase out gas stoves over health concerns met with online anger

By Matthew Smith 01/14/23

The push to electrify kitchens is not new. Scientists have sounded the alarm on the dangers of gas stoves for years. In the mid-80s, the…

The New York Times

About That Gas Stove

By Somini Sengupta 01/13/23

My grandmother in India cooked for many years with coal, then with a tank of liquid petroleum gas. As a child in California, I lived…

Grist

U.S. regulators hinted at a possible ban on gas stoves. The debate boiled over

By John McCracken 01/12/23

Seemingly overnight, the gas stove in nearly one of three homes in the country became an appliance of controversy, bringing possible comparisons to cigarettes on…

Consumer Reports

Induction Cooktops and Ranges Are So Good You May Not Miss Your Gas Appliance

By Paul Hope 01/12/23

Gas cooktops and ranges have had a rough couple of years. They have been the de facto choice for chefs and serious home cooks for…

VOX

The gas stove regulation uproar, explained

By Rebecca Leber 01/11/23

When the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced in mid-December it would consider its first-ever health regulations on gas stoves, it was the start…

Bonappetit

Are Gas Stoves Unsafe? Here’s What to Know About the Gas vs. Induction Debate

By Ali Francis 01/11/23

On Monday, US Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg that the federal agency would consider a nationwide ban on the installation of…

The Washington Post

U.S. agency examines secret pollution from gas stoves

By Shannon Osaka 01/10/23

For years, scientists and health advocates have tried to bring attention to a secret source of air pollution sitting in 40 million homes around the…

Bloomberg News

US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears

By Ari Natter 01/09/23

A federal agency says a ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances.

Electrify Corvallis

Professional Chefs Love Cooking With Induction

07/05/22

Reviewed's mission is to help you buy the best stuff and get the most out of what you already own. Our team of product experts…

Electrify Corvallis

Top Chef Jon Kung: Why I Cook With Induction

05/07/22

I made this video in partnership with Mothers Out Front about why I cook almost exclusively with induction these days - and why I won't…

Robb Report

How Michelin 3-Star Chef Eric Ripert Designed His Own Home Kitchen

By Janice O'Leary 03/19/22

At New York’s Michelin three-star Le Bernardin, that lone lobster claw sitting in a lime-green remoulade upon a sea of porcelain might seem the essence…

01/15/23

..."atmospheric rivers" generating floods in California

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The Washington Post

Flood watch covers nearly all of California amid severe storms

By Todd C. Frankel, Timothy Bella and Others 01/15/23

Nearly 26 million people in California were covered by a flood watch Saturday, mostly between San Francisco and Los Angeles, as fresh rain and storms…

The Washington Post

California’s vineyards were thirsty. Historic rains were ‘a dream come true.’

By Reis Thebault 01/21/23

So when recent rainstorms wreaked chaos across California, growers in the heart of the state’s iconic wine country did not grumble about the dangerous and…

Los Angeles Times

Storm flooding compounds misery for California farms and workers

By Dorany Pineda and Brittny Mejia 01/21/23

He pointed to a 40-foot storage container that Santa Clara River floodwaters had swept off a neighboring farm and deposited before him. Overturned tractors and…

The Washington Post

Before and after: See the impact of California storms from space

By Dan Stillman 01/21/23

After at least nine atmospheric rivers in a little more than three weeks dumped more than 30 trillion gallons of water on California, the state’s…

The New York Times

How do you fight a drought when it’s flooding?

By Farhad Manjoo 01/20/23

California is built upon the great gamble of irrigation. Left alone, much of the land in the Western United States would be inhospitable to teeming…

Los Angeles Times

‘Endless stream’ of new storms hits California again this week. What to expect

By Rong-Gong Lin II, Hayley Smith, Susanne Rust 01/16/23

The seventh atmospheric river storm since Christmas hit California on Wednesday, and more flooding is possible as two more are forecast through the Martin Luther…

The Washington Post

Atmospheric river bears down on California, but storms are weakening

By Kim Bellware 01/16/23

The atmospheric rivers that brought pounding rains and heavy snow over parts of California this month continued to drench Southern and Central California on Monday,…

Los Angeles Times

California bracing for one final round of storms as officials assess damage

By Taryn Luna 01/15/23

Another moderate storm moved into California Sunday evening, bringing more rain to Los Angeles, the coast and inland valleys, and dropping potentially up to 2…

The Washington Post

California’s winter storms have been deadlier than any wildfire since 2018

By Reis Thebault 01/14/23

Relentless wind and rain has killed people sleeping in homes and in tents. It has taken the lives of those sheltering indoors and those working…

Los Angeles Times

Mass storm outages bring misery across California, exposing power grid’s vulnerabilities

By Grace Toohey 01/13/23

David Higares was on his fourth day without power in his Morada home in San Joaquin County when he woke up to indoor temperatures barely…

The New York Times

Weeks of Storms Test California’s Approach to Taming Nature

By Christopher Flavelle 01/12/23

As California battles a third week of lashing rain and snow that have flooded communities, broken levees and toppled power lines, the state is facing…

The New York Times

California’s Redwood Forests Don’t Mind Wet, Windy Weather

By Amanda Holpuch 01/11/23

When the rain is relentless and the wind is ferocious, there are plenty of imperiled things for Californians to worry about. The state’s iconic redwood…

Los Angeles Times

Crushed by falling trees. Drowned in floodwaters. The deadly toll of California storms worsens

By Hayley Smith 01/11/23

A toddler crushed by falling trees. A 5-year-old swept away by floodwaters before his mother’s eyes and still missing. Three bodies recovered from inside or…

NPR

Heavy rain is still hitting California. A few reservoirs figured out how to capture more for drought

By Lauren Sommer 01/11/23

Despite several weeks of torrential rain and flooding, California is still facing a severe multi-year drought. That has many people thinking about how to better…

the conversation

Atmospheric rivers over California’s wildfire burn scars raise fears of deadly mudslides – this is what cascading climate disasters look like

By Amir AghaKouchak 01/11/23

Rivers of muddy water from heavy rainfall raced through city streets as thousands of people evacuated homes downhill from California’s wildfire burn scars amid atmospheric…

Los Angeles Times

Death toll rises to 19 in California as new storms hit battered communities

By Luke Money and others 01/11/23

From the Pacific coast to the Central Valley, California communities battered by days of destructive flooding began repair and cleanup efforts Wednesday as the weather-weary…

The New York Times

A ‘Pineapple Express’ Is Bringing Rain and Snow to California

By Judson Jones 01/11/23

Forecasters said the rain arriving in California on Wednesday is being caused by a “true Pineapple Express” — a specific example of a common atmospheric…

The New York Times

Will Storms End California’s Drought? That May Be the Wrong Question

By Henry Fountain 01/11/23

The onslaught of rain in California has state officials, scientists and others wondering if it will be enough to end three years of drought that…

Reuters

Storms bring mudslides, evacuations to California with more rain forecast

By Jorge Garcia 01/10/23

The latest Pacific storm unleashed torrential downpours and damaging winds in California on Tuesday, knocking out power and turning city streets into rivers as mudslides…

Bloomberg

Soaked California Faces More Rain as Residents Are Forced to Flee

By Brian K Sullivan and Mark Chediak 01/10/23

California faces more drenching rain as a historic drought has given way to flooding that’s killed at least 17 people, closed highways and sent residents…

The Washington Post

Calif. storm triggers more floods, tornado warnings as death toll climbs

By Matthew Cappucci and others 01/10/23

Heavy rain continued to drench California on Tuesday as an ongoing parade of storms left much of the state in disarray, with power outages, collapsed…

Reuters

Biden declares emergency for California due to winter storms

01/09/23

U.S. President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for California after a week of storms killed at least 12 people in the past 10 days…

Los Angeles Times

Deadly results as dramatic climate whiplash causes California’s aging levees to fail

By Hayley Smith, Louis Sahagún, Jessica Garrison 01/05/23

The pounding rains of New Year’s Eve had ceased, but the pastures, freeways and neighborhoods surrounding the tiny community of Wilton continued to disappear beneath…

01/10/23

...wrapping up climate in 2022 and the news isn’t all bad

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NOAA

Assessing the U.S. Climate in November 2022

12/08/22

The average temperature of the contiguous U.S. in November 2022 was 41.0°F, which is 0.7°F below average, ranking in the middle third of the record.…

NASA

A Look Back: 2022’s Temperature Record

01/12/23

2022 effectively tied for Earth’s 5th warmest year since 1880, and the last 9 consecutive years have been the warmest 9 on record. NASA looks…

Inside Climate News

2022 will be remembered as the year the U.S. became the world’s largest exporter of liquified natural gas

By Nicholas Kusnetz 01/01/23

When environmentalists look back on 2022, they might remember it as the year the United States finally passed a major climate change law. Some advocates…

Inside Climate News

Snapshots, hotshots and moonshots: Images of climate change in 2022

By Katelyn Weisbrod 12/31/22

Climate change and an environment in peril were visible in many of 2022’s defining moments: record-smashing heat waves in Europe and South Asia, droughts pushing…

Los Angeles Times

Doom isn’t inevitable: My top 10 climate lessons from 2022

By Sammy Roth 12/29/22

Another year gone by. Another 365 days of drought, fire, flood and heat. With more to come in the New Year. You’ve heard it all…

Gizmodo

The Climate Disasters That Defined 2022

By Angely Mercado 12/29/22

Countries all over the world saw one climate disaster after another this year. There were relentless heat waves, deep freezes, and hurricanes so destructive they…

GIZMODO

The Biggest Energy Surprises of 2022

By Molly Taft 12/28/22

It’s been a hell of a year in energy. 2022 was full of historic changes—and quite a few surprises—as the world grappled with an energy…

The New York Times

This Year Was the Beginning of a Green Transition

By Leah C. Stokes 12/25/22

For almost half a century, the world has talked about quitting its addiction to fossil fuels. Yet, year after year, we remain stuck with the…

The New Yorker

The Climate Changed Fast This Year, and Institutions Responded

By Bill McKibben 12/20/22

he progress, or lack of it, in the climate fight is measured in an observatory on the shoulder of Mauna Loa, in Hawaii, the largest…

Inside Climate News

Finally, Some Good Climate News: The Biggest Wins in Clean Energy in 2022 – Inside Climate News

By Dan Gearino 12/08/22

You can forgive people who work on U.S. energy policy for being tired this month. They have just sprinted, and sometimes slogged, through an extraordinary…

ATMOS

10 Environmental Justice Wins in 2022 to Celebrate

By Yessenia Funes 12/05/22

We didn’t save the world in 2022, but there were notable wins in the climate and environmental justice space. The Frontline takes time to celebrate…

The Washington Post

We looked at 1,200 possibilities for the planet’s future. These are our best hope

By Chris Mooney, Naema Ahmed and John Muyskens 12/01/22

It’s the world’s most important climate goal: limiting the Earth’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). It’s the aspiration of global agreements, and to…

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