Poorer Americans and racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately exposed to harmful gas stove pollutants, scientists at Stanford University, Harvard University and the Central California Asthma Collaborative found.
The researchers found that American Indian and Alaska Native households face the most long-term exposure to NO2, at levels 60 percent greater than the national average. Black, Hispanic and Latino households follow, suffering 20 percent more exposure than the average. Stoves alone expose each of these groups to more NO2 pollution than is safe, according to WHO.
“Most of us spend 90 percent of our time or more inside,” said Rob Jackson, professor of earth system science at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and the study’s principal investigator. “We need to take ownership and act to clean up people’s air because it’s the air most people breathe and we’ve ignored it for decades.”
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