A group that commissioned a study that linked natural gas stoves to childhood asthma that was cited by a number of media outlets this week revealed that it “does not assume or estimate a causal relationship” between gas stoves and asthma.
The study, commissioned by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) think tank, linked 12.7 percent of all childhood asthma cases to gas stoves and was cited by an official in the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) earlier this week when he floating a possible ban or regulation of gas stoves, used by tens of millions of Americans. However, some doctors and researchers have sounded the alarm on the study’s conclusions and have noted that asthma is a complex disease with many different causes.
