Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle are expressing their frustration after it was reported that the Biden administration could consider a ban on gas stoves, with some warning that the move could result in Americans “paying higher electric bills.”
\nThe\u00a0U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission\u00a0(CPSC) is weighing action on gas stoves as concerns about indoor air pollutants from the appliances rise. According to Bloomberg, the agency plans to act on the appliances because the pollutants can cause respiratory and health issues.
\n“This is a hidden hazard,” CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg. “Any option is on the table. Products that can\u2019t be made safe can be banned.”
\nTrumka Jr. later clarified his comments in a tweet, saying that any regulation would apply to new products.
\nThe agency’s deliberation on whether to ban gas stoves \u2014 which CPSC Chair Alexander Hoehn-Saric said he is not currently looking to do \u2014 has garnered immense criticism from Americans and many have criticized the agency’s hypocrisy after a\u00a0resurfaced photo\u00a0of first lady Jill Biden cooking with a gas stove went viral.
\nHouse Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who represents Washington’s 5th Congressional District and is the first woman to head the committee since its creation in 1795, told Fox News Digital that the reported efforts to ban gas stoves is “the latest in a long line of power grabs by the radical left and Biden administration.”<\/p>\n