Colorado’s oil and gas industry is pushing back against a recent study linking natural gas stoves to childhood asthma, which sparked a national debate.
, published last month by Colorado-based RMI , found that 12.7% of childhood asthma cases can be attributed to gas stoves.
Nicole Schomburg, a senior director at FTI Consulting, which advocates for the oil and gas industry said the study used a questionable methodology and cherry-picked its data. But Brady Seals, manager of RMI’s Carbon-Free Buildings program and one of the study’s authors, said that’s untrue.and vetting of other scientists in the field across the world.
“We used a previously peer-reviewed methodology… and a previously peer-reviewed meta-analysis, which aggregates all studies done on the issue,” Seals continued., dean of the Colorado School of Public Health, took no issue with the way the study came together.Samet added that there’s no doubt gas stoves emit nitrogen dioxide, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notes can aggravate respiratory diseases, leading to coughing, wheezing or difficulty breathing.
Schomburg, whose company works with the Independent Petroleum Association of America, also noted that the RMI study doesn’t prove that gas stoves specifically cause asthma, a point seized on by conservative outlets like the
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