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Along with material collected through its own reporting, NPR reviewed hundreds of pages of publicly available documents gathered by CIC that include scientific studies, trade journal articles and papers from the University of California, San Francisco’s tobacco industry archives.

The industry-backed studies focused on uncertainties in the health research and magnified them, leaving the impression that the science is not clear, even as evidence has accumulated about a link between using gas stoves at home and greater risk of respiratory illnesses.

“We have no reason to believe that the GRI report wasn’t conducted with the same high standards of rigor and objectivity with which Arthur D. Little approaches all client engagements,” Etienne Brumauld des Houlières, global marketing and communications director, wrote in an email.

Gradient published a study in April, funded by AGA, that surveys available research and concludes it “does not provide sufficient evidence regarding causal relationships between gas cooking or indoor NO2 and asthma or wheeze.”

Two days later, AGA President and CEO Karen Harbert touted that research as an effort “to ensure regulators and policymakers can confidently make decisions based on sound data developed using reliable methods as they approach any issues related to natural gas.”

Shy, now retired from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says recent studies have reassured him that the effects he observed early in his career were correct — that cooking with a gas stove does come with potential health consequences.

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