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Suzuki Foundation joins the war on your stove.https://t.co/t1qqtBnQUz

— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) January 19, 2023

The link between the juvenile respiratory issue and natural gas cooking appliances was first reported by Bloomberg after a Biden health official floated a gas stove ban, citing a flawed analysis of household pollutants.

A federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves as concerns about indoor pollution linked to childhood asthma rise, Bloomberg has reported https://t.co/NbgCM3U2fm

— CNN (@CNN) January 10, 2023

However, the authors of the original study admit they drew no causation determination between gas stoves and childhood asthma.

So, about that recent controversial study linking #gasstoves to childhood asthma...

A lead author now says the study "does not assume or estimate a causal relationship" between childhood asthma and natural gas stoves. https://t.co/OpudG2ebiP pic.twitter.com/NRcw17uqTc

— Steve Everley (@saeverley) January 13, 2023

The Washington Free Beacon noted the Rocky Mountain Institute, the loudest pushers of the flawed December 2022 study as evidence of the secret harms of reliable and clean fossil fuels, had partnered with the Chinese government to end fossil fuels.

Wanna know where the push to ban natural gas stoves is coming from? The land of COVID......https://t.co/6wyhCDpPyR

— Andrew Wilkow (@WilkowMajority) January 16, 2023

Though those on the left are now writing off the threat of a ban on gas stoves, NY Governor Kathy Hochul has said she would support a ban on natural gas furnaces and stoves in new home construction.

Hochul [D-NY] schemes to ban sales of gas stoves https://t.co/AWuIY0WLqL

— Georgia Log Cabin (@GeorgiaLogCabin) January 14, 2023

CBC has mused about banning gas stoves since at least 2019.

Ironically, a major cause of respiratory illness and death in the developing world is the lack of access to natural gas for home heating and cooking, with people resorting to open-burning wood and animal dung inside their homes.