A member of the Biden administration admitted last year to planning a complete ban on natural gas-powered stoves through the Consumer Product Safety Commission. “There is sufficient information available for CPSC to issue a [Notice of Proposed Rulemaking] in FY 2023 proposing to ban gas stoves in homes,” Democratic operative and Biden-appointed CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka wrote in October.

Trumka’s argument for a national gas stove ban was based on indoor air quality. Specifically, he leaned on a very low-quality study by a green energy group that was trumpeted as showing that a huge portion of asthma cases are caused by gas stoves. The study, by the Rocky Mountain Institute, was criticized by economics professor Emily Oster, the Breakthrough Institute, and Kelsey Piper at Vox.