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Is Your Gas Stove Destroying the Planet?
Cooking over a flame is a tiny contributor to climate change, but supplying homes and businesses with natural gas is a big one.
Gas stoves are feeling the heat of climate change concerns.
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Of the natural gas burned in American homes, just 2.8% is used for cooking, according to a 2015 survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Residential natural-gas use in turn makes up just 15% of total U.S. consumption, a percentage that has fallen over the past decade as (1) natural gas passed coal to become the country’s main power-plant fuel and (2) residential gas use held more or less steady, as it has since the mid-1970s.