ENERGY AFFORDABILITY IN MARYLAND - Integrating Public Health, Equity, and Climate BACKGROUND

Roughly one-eighth of childhood asthma in the United States is attributable to the use of gas stoves. [...] Available evidence, while sparse, indicates that the financial benefit to society resulting from better health, housing security, and universal access to affordable clean energy would be on the same order of magnitude as the investment needed to accomplish those goals. [...] With gas rates likely to skyrocket in the 2030s, as better-off households electrify and STRIDE charges increase, low-income households will be left to cover the cost of the gas system. [...] IEER is a nonprofit research institute that provides activists, policy-makers, journalists, and the public with understandable and accurate scientific and technical information on energy and environmental issues. [...] PSE Healthy Energy is a nonprofit research institute dedicated to supplying evidence-based scientific and technical information on the public health, environmental, and climate dimensions of energy production and use.