Cooking and Clean Air in California Homes Study

Project Innovation

This project will quantify air pollutant concentrations and exposures in apartments with low-income households that cook frequently to inform the need for interventions. It will collect data from homes that use gas, conventional electric, and induction technologies, and homes with varying qualities of kitchen ventilation to inform the potential benefits of mitigations including education campaigns to use available kitchen ventilation, cooking electrification, and retrofits to add kitchen ventilation. Surveys of cooking and ventilation practices among households in disadvantaged communities will provide additional, important context about the frequency of hazardous exposures and potentially also enable targeting of interventions to households and buildings with the greatest need.