Overview
- Colorado cannot enforce the new safety-label requirement or its $20,000 penalty provision while a court weighs an emergency injunction.
- The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers argues the law forces companies to disparage their own products and asserts there is no link between gas stoves and adverse health outcomes.
- Recent reporting shows LG, BSH/Bosch, Whirlpool, and Samsung previously touted air-quality benefits of electric or induction cooking, with some webpages revised or removed after inquiries.
- Colorado’s health department and the U.S. EPA state that gas stoves can release pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and methane, which can build up without adequate ventilation.
- The case proceeds toward preliminary-injunction deadlines at the end of the month as scrutiny intensifies over industry messaging and public-health evidence.