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2023 REPORTS & PAPERS

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Preliminary US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimates for 2022

By Alfredo Rivera, Ben King and Others 01/10/23

The year 2022 was marked by the emergence of longer-term economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and an unexpected war in Eastern Europe that caused turmoil in energy markets. Despite efforts to continue stimulating the US economy in the wake of the pandemic, high inflation put a damper on economic…

The Washington Post

U.S. emissions rose slightly in 2022. They need to be falling rapidly.

By Maxine Joselow 01/10/23

Biden has pledged to cut U.S. emissions 50 to 52 percent by the end of the decade compared with 2005 levels. And humanity must significantly slash greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade, scientists say, to prevent disastrous extreme weather and other catastrophic climate effects around the globe.

SCIENCE 1/5/23

SCIENCE

Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters

By David R. Rounce, Regine Hock and Others 01/05/23

Mountain glaciers, perennial ice masses excluding the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are a critical water resource for nearly two billion people and are threatened by global warming...

The Washington Post

Half of Earth’s glaciers could melt even if key warming goal is met, study says

By Chris Mooney 01/05/23

A sweeping study of all the world’s glaciers outside of the Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets has found that nearly half of them will melt by century’s end, even if the world meets its most ambitious global warming goal...

MDPI 12/21/22

MDPI

Population Attributable Fraction of Gas Stoves and Childhood Asthma in the United States

By Talor Gruenwald, Brady A. Seals and Others 12/21/22

Indoor gas stove use for cooking is associated with an increased risk of current asthma among children and is prevalent in 35% of households in the United States (US). The population-level implications of gas cooking are largely unrecognized. We quantified the population attributable fraction (PAF) for gas stove use and…

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 for the day when gas stoves are one of the remaining contributors to our climate crisis, but we certainly aren’t there yet,” they said. “This…

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 take notice—and a piece of click-bait journalism triggered an unnecessary political backlash.

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 it would look into banning them, and Republicans expressed anger at the mere suggestion.

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 child-poisoning death machine or a treasured piece of national patrimony. Suddenly, everyone has an opinion. Gas stoves! Who could have predicted it?

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 marshmallows over it for s'mores?" ADVERTISING "How do you warm tortillas?" "Does it heat things up (e.g. boil a pot of water) as fast as…

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 of Americans’ ranges and cooktops — in line with previous GOP complaints about real or imagined threats to hamburgers, toilets, air travel, incandescent light bulbs…

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 EPA directed the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to review nitrogen dioxide emissions in kitchens across America due to gas stoves. Policymakers never took…

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 in an apartment with an electric stove, then in a house with a gas connection. In London, last summer, I stayed in an apartment with…

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 one side and accusations of government overreach on the other.

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 decades. But the recent flurry of reports on the potential health risks of gas cooktops and ranges, including one based on Consumer Reports’ own testing,…

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 of what will be a very long journey to any kind of restrictions — one that will consider public comment, including from the gas industry,…

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 new gas stoves—or at least, a new set of standards intended to regulate their toxic fumes, such as the mandatory installation of high efficiency exhaust…

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 United States — which jump-starts childhood asthma, increases the risk of respiratory problems and emits planet-warming gasses.

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.

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 of simplicity, but because chef Eric Ripert is behind it, you know better. Its minimal presentation belies the intricacies that went into its creation.

2023 REPORTS AND PAPERS

REPORTS AND PAPERS

2023 REPORTS & PAPERS