You may have heard the news: gas stoves release toxic air pollution connected to asthma and cancer. While this recent political firestorm is new, the science is anything but — researchers have been documenting the health threats from gas stoves for decades:   1977: “Boys and girls from homes in which gas was used for […]

In Glass Onion, the new Netflix sequel to the popular murder mystery Knives Out, a wealthy billionaire concocts a scheme to pipe explosive hydrogen gas into peoples’ homes. Spoiler alert: the consequences are deadly. Shockingly, this scenario isn’t just Hollywood fiction. Faced with increasing pressure to look like they’re reducing climate pollution from their operations, […]

When it comes to “natural” gas, the fossil fuel industry has used variations of the same marketing pitch for decades: gas is a “bridge fuel” that can get us away from coal and oil until renewable energy is “ready.” Even as wind and solar proved its readiness by becoming the cheapest and fastest growing sources […]

The fossil fuel industry doesn’t just drill for “natural” gas in remote areas, away from people. Nationwide, nearly 18 million Americans live near oil and gas extraction sites and deal with air pollution that increases the risk of premature birth, asthma and cancers like leukemia.   Children in those communities can’t even avoid that pollution […]

You probably know what to do when you smell rotten eggs or sulfur in your home — get outside as soon as possible and call 911. There could be a gas leak, which can have deadly consequences. But did you know that the foul smell in “natural” gas isn’t natural at all? When gas is […]

It may be hard to believe given what you see on TV, but false advertising is a crime that can be punished with fines and jail time. That’s potentially bad news for the people that sell and market “natural” gas, who continue to mislead the public by calling their product “clean.” Growing movement in Canada […]

If you pay a gas bill every month, it’s likely that you’re paying to make your neighbors dependent on methane gas for decades to come. When a new home is being built, gas utilities usually pay for the new pipes and meters needed to hook it up to the gas system, and then recoup those […]

We know that the “natural” gas in millions of American homes is mostly methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that’s worsening the climate crisis. But it turns out that may not even be the worst thing coming out of your gas stove.   A new study from researchers at PSE Healthy Energy found benzene – a […]