Gas Stove Makers Quietly Delete Air Pollution Warnings as They Fight Mandatory Health Labels

The home appliance industry would like you to believe that gas-burning stoves are not a risk to your health -- and several companies that make the devices are scrambling to erase their prior acknowledgements that they are. From a report: That claim is at the heart of a lawsuit the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers has filed against the state of Colorado to stop it from requiring natural gas stoves, which burn methane, to carry health labels not unlike those on every pack of cigarettes. 'Understand the air quality implications of having an indoor gas stove,' the warning would read.

The law was to take effect August 5 but is now on hold, and state officials did not respond to a request for comment. In its federal lawsuit, the Association -- whose board includes representatives of LG Electronics, BSH Home Appliance Corp. (which makes Bosch appliances), Whirlpool, and Samsung Electronics -- asserts that the labeling requirement is 'unconstitutional compelled speech' and illegal under the First Amendment. It calls the legislation a climate law disguised as a health law and, most strikingly, it claims there is 'no association between gas stoves and adverse health outcomes.'

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