Gas has a nasty habit of exploding: It’s responsible for hundreds of deaths and billions in damage in the past decade alone. But it also causes slow-motion health harms, making people who live near wellsites and in homes with gas appliances sick from toxic fumes.
Gas has a nasty habit of exploding: between 2010 and 2020, a gas accident causing major damage, injury, or deaths occurred nearly once every two days. And that doesn’t even count accidents “behind the meter” – the gas company blames you if your house blows up. Gas stoves and furnaces are also a leading source of carbon monoxide poisoning, which kills more than 430 Americans every year.
Despite repeated train derailment disasters like in East Palestine, Ohio, the gas industry wants to transport more explosive loads of liquified gas through American rail communities.
A majority of gas in the US comes from fracking, an environmentally damaging practice in which water and chemicals are injected into the ground to force out oil and gas. Toxic air and water near fracking sites is linked to premature births, heart disease and cancers like leukemia.
Gas stoves leak methane and cancer-causing chemicals like benzene into the air of your home, even when they’re turned off! Children in homes with gas stoves have a 42% higher chance of developing asthma.
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