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EPA’s next target in fight against climate change: cooking stoves
The Washington Times ^ | May 26, 2014 | By John Solomon

Posted on 05/26/2014 7:12:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The war on climate change may soon be moving inside the kitchen.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy is set to unveil on Tuesday six federal grants to universities to fund research on clean cookstove technology.

The announcement will put the EPA’s resources squarely behind a United Nations’ quest for cleaner burning stoves and an end to deadly cooking pollution.

“This research will help to improve air quality, protect public health and slow climate change,” the EPA said in explaining why the agency chief will preside over the announcement on Tuesday.

To make the case for why these grants are so important, EPA noted the World Health Organization estimates that exposure to smoke from traditional cookstoves and open pit fires leads to 4.3 million premature deaths each year.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechangefraud; climategate; cookingpollution; cookingstoves; cookstoves; epa; epaoutofcontrol; ginamccarthy; globalwarming; hoax; stoves; tyranny; who
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To: umgud

Millions of people are out of work, largely through the non-stop destruction of America by Executive Branch Agencies like the EPA.

They write regulations, they pass laws, they circumvent the will of the people. They are not permitted to do this, they are, including the IRS illegal.

Don’t expect the rump rangers in congress to do anything about it.

Wretches all.


21 posted on 05/26/2014 7:35:43 AM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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To: Daffynition
Yep...you're hosed.

That will be labled a polluter.

They won't be happy until everybody is cooking like this.


22 posted on 05/26/2014 7:38:36 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I see this being imposed on restaurants, much like the ADA regulations were. They will be forced to install expensive “clean burning” stoves, exhaust systems, and filters. This will necessitate EPA inspections of these kitchens to ensure compliance, for a fee of course.It will also increase manufacturing costs. In the end, businessman and homeowners (the rich) will bear the brunt.


23 posted on 05/26/2014 7:40:17 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Start with Al Gore.


24 posted on 05/26/2014 7:41:32 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

EPA noted the World Health Organization estimates that exposure to smoke from traditional cookstoves and open pit fires leads to 4.3 million premature deaths each year.


How are regulations by the EPA in THE UNITED STATES going to have any benefit to the millions of third-world women who spend all day cooking over dung fires in tiny huts, ruining their lungs?


25 posted on 05/26/2014 7:41:51 AM PDT by Freeping Since 2001 (Since 2001. Seriously.)
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To: cyclotic

And our toilets as well!


26 posted on 05/26/2014 7:42:06 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: the anti-mahdi
Millions of people are out of work, largely through the non-stop destruction of America by Executive Branch Agencies like the EPA.

They have effectively become the fourth branch of government.

27 posted on 05/26/2014 7:43:09 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Freeping Since 2001

Have they calculated how many deaths abortion and liberalism cause each year?


28 posted on 05/26/2014 7:44:31 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: Teacher317

4.3 million dead per year? From cooking? Where do they get these numbers???


Easy. 215,000,000 (say) people cook over smoky fires in their huts. Say 2% of them die each year as would be expected. All of those are believed to have had their lives shortened slightly (or significantly) from the stove smoke. That’s 4.3 million “premature deaths” each year.


29 posted on 05/26/2014 7:46:04 AM PDT by Freeping Since 2001 (Since 2001. Seriously.)
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To: mountn man
The Muslims whom many/strike> most are terrorists, have a lot in common with these govt. agencies in that they want to reset us back to turd world conditions.
30 posted on 05/26/2014 7:46:11 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway
The Muslims whom many most are terrorists, have a lot in common with these govt. agencies in that they want to reset us back to turd world conditions.
31 posted on 05/26/2014 7:47:07 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: mountn man

They won’t be happy until everybody is cooking like this.


Actually, it would be logical and reasonable to hope that everyone who now cooks every day on smoky wood fires in their huts were to cook on efficient stoves like that.

Which is a good job for international charitable and educational organizations, and has nothing to do with the population of the US, or the federal government.


32 posted on 05/26/2014 7:48:49 AM PDT by Freeping Since 2001 (Since 2001. Seriously.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“You don’t need a presidency for life when you have a bureaucracy for life.” - Mark Steyn

It won’t matter if conservatives take the House, Senate and the presidency if we don’t put a stop to the bureaucratic dictatorship that has quietly seized control of this country.


33 posted on 05/26/2014 7:50:00 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: DoughtyOne
Where’s the Raid when a cockroach like this organization is running across the kitchen floor? Quick someone, anyone, step on it!

Boehner'll get right on it! We found him! Just outside, on the Capitol grounds!

Mr. Speaker? Congressman? Sir?


34 posted on 05/26/2014 7:50:40 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: cableguymn

“electric stoves are zero emissions.. “

You obviously have never seen me put a good fry on something. Lotta smoke.


35 posted on 05/26/2014 7:50:43 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What idiocy. I’m going to fire up my old smoky charcoal barbecue.


36 posted on 05/26/2014 7:51:16 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Teacher317

Falling into the open fire accounts for some.
Splatter from turkey fryers probably account for some. :^()

Perfect example of a gov. agency thinking up ways to perpetuate their existence.


37 posted on 05/26/2014 7:52:15 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
TRANSLATION: "Every word that comes out of our mouths is a lie and everything we do is to eradicate non-essential peasants like you, and there is nothing you can do about it."
38 posted on 05/26/2014 7:54:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Did your husband ever bbq over charcoal?” “Yes?”

“Cause of death, fire pollution”


39 posted on 05/26/2014 7:54:50 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
You obviously have never seen me put a good fry on something. Lotta smoke.

Speaking of emissions, there's those beans I cooked last night...

40 posted on 05/26/2014 7:55:58 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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