Meet the Green Energy Group Behind the Study That’s Driving Calls To Ban Gas Stoves

A study by the Green Energy Group, which was cited in Richard Trumka Jr.’s Consumer Product Safety Commissioner’s call for gas stove bans has been partnered with the Chinese government to make it happen. “economy-wide transformation” Stay away from oil and natural gas

The December study by the Colorado-based nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute that attributed 13 percent of U.S. children with asthma to gas-stove usage, was not conducted objectively by a group of scientists.

The organization is demanding “systemic change and economy-wide transformation” To address the climate crisis, it said we should go to great lengths. In 2013, for example, the Rocky Mountain Institute joined forces with China’s National Development and Reform Commission—the government agency tasked with planning the communist nation’s economy—to produce a report China was advised to replace its existing generators and appliances with newer models. “clean energy technologies.” The commission set climate goals which included energy reduction targets. The commission was notified when the targets were not met by local provinces in 2021. pushed They are urging them to install electricity rations. “dimmed traffic lights that cause chaos” “half-cooked rice in rice cookers.”

The Rocky Mountain Institute was not the first green energy group that advocated for banning gas stoves. This is a fact that nearly 40% of U.S. homes still use gas stoves. The nonprofit’s recent influence is a result of the Biden administration aligning with some of the most vocal climate activists on the left. President Joe Biden already suggested a natural gas phaseout for federal buildings. This would ban the use of fossil-fuel equipment within new buildings by 2030. The move will be costly to taxpayers in the millions each year, according to leading green energy groups. Washington Free Beacon reported December

Academic leaders revealed that the Rocky Mountain Institute’s biases, which include its public mission statement, and its work with China, are reflected in its study of gas stoves. Free Beacon. The study—which spans just nine paragraphs—was based on a hodgepodge of different data and methodologies spanning various years and countries, ranging from 2019 U.S. Census data to conclusions from a 2018 analysis in Australia.

Harvey Risch, Yale University professor and medicine, says it’s questionable to structure a research in that manner. The institute’s findings are also different from the public statements made by the organization.

“This paper does not do any research on possible association between residential natural gas use and risk of childhood asthma,” Risch said that the Free Beacon. “It only calculates one percent of childhood asthma that could have been attributable residential natural