The Department of Energy's proposed conservation standards for new cooking devices would remove from the market about half the gas stove models used by consumers, the agency said in a new memo, igniting fresh controversy over the popular household appliance.
Officials have stressed that the proposed rule would not take effect for another three years if finalized.
It would also require both gas and electric stoves to meet certain efficiency standards in their design, including utilizing an optimized burner and improved grates. Additionally, it would ban any new stoves that use a “linear” power supply and extend an existing ban on products with a constant-burning pilot light.
Still, these details would likely do little to assuage U.S. consumers, who went to bat so heavily for the appliances last month over a Consumer Product Safety Commission member saying the agency would seek to ban them. The commission chairman was later forced to say that no ban was in store.
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