Your Gas Oven is Not Good for the Climate

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A new study from researchers at Stanford University finds that on an annual basis, the methane leaking from residential gas ovens in the U.S. has the same negative effect on the climate as 500,000 gas-powered cars. These findings come as climate activists and legislators nationwide increase efforts to ban natural gas hookups in new building construction. In California, although 60 percent of homes use gas stoves, compared to the national average of one-third, dozens of cities and counties have implemented or promoted legislation to phase out the use of natural gas in new builds. We’ll talk with the study’s lead researcher and discuss what this means for consumers and the industry. Guests: Rob Jackson, professor of Earth System Science, Stanford University; senior fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy Katherine Blunt , energy reporter, Wall Street Journal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	Researchers at Stanford have found that gas stoves are an even bigger contributor to climate change than previously thought,
1:12.6	because the stoves are often leaking tiny but constant amounts of methane.
1:18.6	In California, some 60% of homes use gas stove tops compared to a national average of one-third,
1:24.6	prompting some cities and counties to pass or propose legislation
1:28.7	to phase out the stoves, which has drawn the attention of the natural gas industry.
1:34.5	Joining me now is Catherine Blund, an energy reporter from the Wall Street Journal.
1:38.4	Catherine Blunt, thanks so much for being with us.
1:40.5	Thank you for having me.
1:42.0	Also, Rob Jackson is with us, Professor of Earth System Science at Stanford University,
1:46.0	Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy.
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