So are they going to try to ban fire places? If gas stoves cause harmful pollutants, I am sure a fire place would do the same.
I don't have a fire place. I saw a video recently on a portable propane heater I liked. I may have to go ahead and get that.
Fireplaces have vents. So do gas furnaces and water heaters. In fact last winter my gas furnace crapped out because it has a sensor in the exhaust to verify the pressure in the exhaust to make sure the exhaust is actually exhausting, and the sensor failed. Gas ranges are the only gas appliance that just spews into the living space with no ventilation. And cheap houses and apartments often have no vent hood, which always seemed wrong in the first place if you actually use your range for cooking. Under these circumstances, it seems like a reasonable thing to do would be update building codes to require ventilation for gas ranges, like all decent houses and commercial kitchens do anyway. But it seems our only tool is to ban things now.
Long ago, in a more civilized age known as "the nineties", a similar problem was handled in a reasonable way when 3-wire electric dryers were phased out. Everyone knew they were dangerous and should use 4-wire circuits, so in 1996 they changed the rules so 3-wire dryers could not be sold anymore. And building codes were changed so it was illegal to install 3-wire receptacles in any new construction or remodel. But you were still allowed to install a 3-wire cord on a new dryer in order to use a new dryer in an old house. If you had an old 3-wire dryer and moved to a new house, well, you were out of luck but that was probably an old dryer anyway at that point. I suppose if our current government were in place in 1996 then they would have just banned dryers because clotheslines are better for the environment anyway.