A new air quality study from researchers with Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSEHE) and Stanford University is the latest attempt to use flawed research to support the national campaign to restrict consumer choice and ban natural gas appliances, this time incorporating inflated...
October marked the 20th anniversary since the first Marcellus Shale well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 2004. Like Pennsylvania’s Drake Well, which launched commercial oil drilling across the world in 1859, Range Resource’s Renz #1 has been a game-changer for the Commonwealth and the United States....
Researchers from Stanford University recently teamed up with Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSEHE) on a new gas stove study (Kashtan et al.) that attempts to link the appliance to increased asthma risk. But like the team’s previous research, the findings relied on...
Watching the Ohio Oil & Gas Land Management Commission’s June meeting on leasing the state’s mineral rights and recent coverage of a related protest is like taking a time machine back to 2013. Fortunately, many of the concerns raised about fracking, produced water management and...
Proponents of restricting consumer choice continue to use flawed methodology and scare tactics to convince the public gas stoves are a danger. The latest effort is a study conducted by researchers from Stanford University that has released similarly flawed research on gas stoves previously. When...
Authors of a recent study that has been touted by activists, the U.S. Energy Secretary and in media outlets across the country as justification for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to enact a federal gas stove ban have been forced to admit that their study...
Headlines across the country this week are saying that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering a federal ban on natural gas stoves, following a Bloomberg interview with CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka, Jr. where he said: “This is a hidden hazard…Any option is on...
Today, Energy in Depth is releasing a new analysis of an Oregon county health report released in November that claimed gas stoves are a “health hazard” and recommended residents replace the popular cooking appliances with electric stoves. But after a detailed citation by citation breakdown,...
Consumer access to natural gas is under threat in Oregon, where two major municipalities are pushing new policy proposals based on deeply flawed research and scare tactics. In Eugene, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported that the “City Council recently voted to begin drafting rules that would...
Recently a Consumer Reports study was published on natural gas stoves’ impacts on indoor air quality, perpetuating false claims against residential natural gas use. This study isn’t the first time the safety of residential natural gas has been called into question by activists masquerading behind...
A new study from an anti-natural gas activist group is high on scare tactics around gas stoves but acknowledges it found low levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and never assessed the actual risks, if any, to residents. The study, yet another published by authors...
The activist who wrote a 2012 memo encouraging anti-fracking groups to connect health problems and fracking even when no evidence existed to support the claims recently co-authored a report admitting that the vast majority of scientific research shows no harmful air pollutants near oil and...