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Articles for Gas Hookups

Editorial: Berkeley’s backtrack on gas ban won’t stop the electrification trend
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: Berkeley’s backtrack on gas ban won’t stop the electrification trend

LA Times  

The garage of an all-electric, solar powered home includes a battery storage system that can power the home during an outage and in the evenings when the cost of electricity from the grid is higher. Berkeley’s trend-setting 2019 ordinance banned gas piping in new buildings and was followed by dozens of other cities across the state that passed a range …

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Editorial: Polluters keep trying to block gas bans. California cities shouldn’t be deterred
1 year, 7 months ago

Editorial: Polluters keep trying to block gas bans. California cities shouldn’t be deterred

LA Times  

The California Restaurant Assn. A growing number of California cities and counties have wisely decided to stop expanding fossil fuel infrastructure by enacting policies to ban or discourage gas hookups in new construction or move to all-electric building codes. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the California Restaurant Assn., which filed …

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Editorial: Los Angeles lags on building electrification. Now is the time to ban new gas hookups
2 years, 10 months ago

Editorial: Los Angeles lags on building electrification. Now is the time to ban new gas hookups

LA Times  

A gas stove is seen lit as Stanford researchers monitor air pollution in the kitchen area of a monitoring station in a vacant apartment in Mountain View on Dec. 1, 2021. City officials are pushing to adopt a ban on gas hookups in new buildings by Jan. 1, 2023, though it’s not clear yet how quickly these new codes would …

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Will sprawling Tejon Ranch be good for climate change?
3 years ago

Will sprawling Tejon Ranch be good for climate change?

LA Times  

Joshua trees with spiky branches clump together near the bottom of the Blue Ridge Range at Tejon Ranch. Transportation is by far the biggest source of climate pollution in California, responsible for nearly 40% of the state’s carbon emissions — about four times as much as gas heating and cooking. Tejon Ranch acknowledges its project would generate 500,000 metric tons …

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As Cities Grapple With Climate Change, Gas Utilities Fight To Stay In Business
3 years, 10 months ago

As Cities Grapple With Climate Change, Gas Utilities Fight To Stay In Business

NPR  

As Cities Grapple With Climate Change, Gas Utilities Fight To Stay In Business toggle caption Kim Raff for NPR Updated on March 10th at 12:30 p.m. A critical part of Flagstaff's climate plan proposed that all new construction get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 and that the city promote "aggressive building electrification" to decrease reliance on fossil fuels. …

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How the gas industry tricked Americans into loving a dangerous appliance.
3 years, 10 months ago

How the gas industry tricked Americans into loving a dangerous appliance.

Slate  

In early 2020, Wilson Truong posted on the Nextdoor social media platform—where users can send messages to a group in their neighborhood—in a Culver City, California, community. It is causing respiratory and cardiovascular health problems; it can exacerbate flu and asthma and COPD in children.” Without ventilation, “you’re basically living in this toxic soup.” Beginning in the 1990s, the gas …

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Bay Area cities have banned gas to fight climate change. But not Los Angeles
3 years, 10 months ago

Bay Area cities have banned gas to fight climate change. But not Los Angeles

LA Times  

This is the Feb. 4, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Officials in Garcetti’s office say they’re working to craft policies that will not only slash carbon emissions from new and existing buildings, but also do so in a way that sustains job opportunities for gas …

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Should California ban gas in new homes? A climate battle heats up
4 years ago

Should California ban gas in new homes? A climate battle heats up

LA Times  

An aerial view of Day Creek Villas, a zero-net-energy senior housing development in Rancho Cucamonga. The question is what the path looks like.” Everett Reid, assistant superintendent, views high-efficiency natural gas boilers at National Community Renaissance’s Day Creek Villas, a zero-net-energy senior housing development in Rancho Cucamonga. Building industry groups told state officials there’s usually no “significant difference” in cost …

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