Yes, Chefs, The Government Is Coming For Your Gas Stoves

You might have thought the fierce public backlash that developed earlier in January when news broke of a planned effort by the federal Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) to regulate and eventually ban the use of gas stoves in the home broke in the media would have nixed that idea for now. But if you thought that, you would be wrong.

Despite the non-denial denial issued by CPSC Chairman Alexander Hoen-Sarcic shortly after the story broke, the controversy continued to bubble to the surface over the past two weeks. Commissioner Richard Trumka,...