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DESCRIPTION: The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is advancing a Zero NOx rule that would phase out new gas-fired water heaters and furnaces in favor of electric heat pump heating and cooling appliances. The rule is framed around climate goals, but its most immediate impact is on indoor air quality and public health inside Bay Area homes.\n\nResearch from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health links gas appliances to indoor NOx exposure linked to an estimated 354 premature deaths and roughly 900 new pediatric asthma cases from bronchitis annually across California, with associated health costs estimated at $3.5 billion and total NOx emissions from gas appliances estimated at 16,000 tons per year. Children, older adults, and people with asthma or existing respiratory conditions face the greatest risk, and the burden falls hardest on lower-income households and communities that already carry a disproportionate pollution load. [1]\n\nThis roundtable is designed to move the conversation beyond the abstract statistics: to explain, in plain terms and through firsthand experience, what the science says, what installing heat pump appliances involves, the costs and the benefits, and what the transition means for homeowners, renters, and the contractors doing the work.\n\n\nModerator: Chase Cain of Chase What Matters;Meteorologist and Emmy Award–winning Climate Journalist\nPanelists:\n\nDr. Lisa Patel, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University; Executive Director, Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health\nSam Fishman, Sustainability and Resilience Policy Manager, SPUR\nZoe Elizabeth, Director of Decarbonization Policy and Community Strategies, Silicon Valley Clean Energy\nAdditional speakers to be announced\n\n\n\nFor details, click here: https://spur.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/component/events/event/575
SUMMARY:Clearing the Air on Heat Pump Adoption: Benefits to Bay Area Homes, Health, and Climate
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LOCATION: 654 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, 94105
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