Editorial: No, the feds aren’t coming for your gas stove. But these unhealthful appliances still need to go
Who could have predicted that kitchen stoves would become the latest tinderbox in the nation’s culture wars? But that’s what happened in recent days as Republicans flew off the handle over comments by Richard Trumka Jr., a member of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, who said the agency was looking at regulating gas stoves and could even ban them because they are a health hazard. GOP ...
by Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Jan 16, 2023
3 minutes
Who could have predicted that kitchen stoves would become the latest tinderbox in the nation’s culture wars?
But that’s what happened in recent days as Republicans flew off the handle over comments by Richard Trumka Jr., a member of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, who said the agency was looking at regulating gas stoves and could even ban them because they are a health hazard.
GOP politicians seized on the remarks, accusing President Joe Biden and the Democrats of trying to take away people’s gas stoves. Florida
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