Leah Stokes is a professor at UC Santa Barbara where she works on climate and clean energy policy. She says scientists have been warning us for over 30 years that there's a dark side to natural gas. When you're cooking with the gas, you're also releasing nitrous oxides as well as formaldehyde. Clean electricity combined with electrification could cut three quarters of our carbon pollution.
No, the government isn’t coming for your gas stove. Vox’s Rebecca Leber explains why you might want to switch anyway.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited and fact-checked by Matt Collette and Amina Al-Sadi, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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