If You Like Your Gas Stove, You Can Keep Your Gas Stove

They are coming for your gas-powered car, your gas stove, your gas water heater, your gas furnace, your gas dryer, your gas grille, your gas blower, your gas fireplace, and any other gas-powered appliance or vehicle you can think of. Or they were…

The Trump Administration’s Energy Department is rolling back the Biden Administration’s draconian regulations on appliances.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright announced this week that the Department of Energy has further postponed the implementation of three of the Biden-Harris administration’s restrictive mandates on home appliances.

As the Globe explained in December:

California is set to become the first state to ban natural gas heaters, water heaters, and furnaces by 2030, a policy of the California Air Resources Board, entirely made up of appointees by the governor, I reported in 2023 in The Tangled Government Web Behind the Push to Ban Gas Stoves, where we link Harvard Health Publishing, the Rocky Mountain Institute,  MDPI International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine. NIH is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world. The WHO is named in the studies, as are many Chinese studies.

These groups were behind the Biden administration’s attempt to ban gas stoves and gas appliances.

In 2022 The Guardian reported that “the emission of toxic chemicals and carcinogens from gas stoves is creating indoor pollution worse than car traffic.”

The Guardian says “research has repeatedly found the emission of toxic chemicals and carcinogens from gas stoves, even when they are turned off, is creating a miasma of indoor pollution.”

This research link is from Harvard Health Publishing. The article is written by Wynne Armand, MD in September 2022 who claims “Cooking with gas stoves creates nitrogen dioxide and releases additional tiny airborne particles known as PM2.5, both of which are lung irritants. Nitrogen dioxide has been linked with childhood asthma. During 2019 alone, almost two million cases worldwide of new childhood asthma were estimated to be due to nitrogen dioxide pollution.”

Total rubbish.

As we’ve reported for many years, Dr. James Enstrom of UCLA long ago debunked the PM2.5 epidemiology. He found no robust relationship between PM2.5 and total mortality. However, this claim about these airborne particles have been used for decades by the government and American Cancer Society “as the primary justification for many costly regulations, most recently the Clean Power Plan,” as Dr. Enstrom explained.

Secretary Wright says the Department of Energy’s notices officially postpone the effective dates for three home appliance rules:

• Test Procedures for Central Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps
• Efficiency Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Freezers
• Efficiency Standards for Gas Instantaneous Water Heaters

So if you like your gas water heaters, walk-in freezers, central air conditioners and heat pumps, you can keep your gas water heaters, walk-in freezers, central air conditioners and heat pumps.

The energy department “has also officially withdrawn four conservation standards, including standards on electric motors, ceiling fans, dehumidifiers, and external power supplies.”

“This continued commitment to the American people will slash unnecessary red tape and regulations that raise prices, reduce consumer choice, and frustrate the American people.”

Be still my beating heart – the Trump administration is cutting red tape, and regulations.

“These actions, taken in accordance with President Donald Trump’s Executive Order, ‘Unleashing Prosperity through Deregulation,’ marks a key step in lowering costs, enhancing performance, and expanding options for American consumers,” Secretary Wright said.

What a difference an election makes.