Brian Lear on WNYC and now our climate story of the week which we're doing every

Tuesday all this year on the show yes even during Pledge Drive and earlier this

year gas stoves touched off what might have been an unlikely culture war front

between Republicans and Democrats.

We've talked about this a little bit before.

Back on January 9th, Richard Trumka Jr.

A Commissioner in the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission suggested to Bloomberg

news that the government might consider stricter regulation of new gas stoves in response to health concerns about indoor air quality

and climate change.

The response for many Republicans was swift.

Gods, guns, gas stoves, wrote U.S. representative.

Guess who? Yes, Jim Jordan on what was then Twitter.

Governor Ron Desantis issued aprons, you know, that don't tread on me, yellow flag with the snake, those

aprons, except for a snake, there was a gas stove.

These comments came after Trumka clarified that the agency, quote,

isn't coming for anyone's gas stoves.

But with the US's goal of reaching net zero emissions

by 2050, the future of the gas utilities industry, which emits methane

into the air, is looking bleak.

And there are laws now popping up in New York and other places that new buildings that get

constructed have to be electrified in that respect. So this may all sound like

the latest front of the culture war, but the campaign to get more

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