CLEVELAND — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is helping northeast Ohio families ditch gas stoves. 

What You Need To Know

  • The EPA awarded MetroHealth and Community Housing Solutions with $17 million, which will be used to launch a new program to help swap out gas stoves for electric ones

  • The program will identify 1,200 households around the greater Cleveland area and other parts of northeast Ohio that have at least one asthmatic resident

  • One-in-five Clevelanders have asthma

The EPA awarded MetroHealth and Community Housing Solutions with $17 million, which will be used to launch a new program to help swap out gas stoves for electric ones.

The program will identify 1,200 households around the greater Cleveland area and other parts of northeast Ohio that have at least one asthmatic resident.

“This grant will help Cleveland-area residents with asthma reduce indoor air pollution in their homes,” said EPA Region 5 Administrator Debra Shore in a release. “Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, people will have healthier homes and be able to breathe easier.”  

One-in-five Clevelanders have asthma, according to Dr. Ash Sehgal, the Duncan Neuhauser Professor of Community Health Improvement at the MetroHealth System and Case Western Reserve University. 

“This grant will allow us to replace gas stoves with electric stoves in households across the city, reducing indoor air pollution and improving the quality of life for individuals with asthma,” said Sehgal in a release. 

The EPA said residents in the following areas are eligible to participate in the program: Cleveland, Euclid, East Cleveland, Garfield Heights, Maple Heights, Newburgh Heights, Warrensville Heights, Akron and Canton. 

To learn more about the program, residents can contact Community Housing Solutions at 216-231-5815.