Court overturns Berkeley, California's gas ban

CBS ^ | 4/18/23

[DallasBiff]

A federal appeals court on Monday overturned Berkeley, California's first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed federal energy regulations when it approved the ordinance.

Th

e measure, which took effect in 2020 to cheers from environmentalists, was intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming. With some exceptions, it banned new residential and commercial buildings from installing natural gas piping in favor of electrical lines.

Thelawsuit by the California Restaurant Association claimed the regulation violated federal law that gives the U.S. government authority to set energy-efficiency standards for appliances such as stoves, furnaces and water heaters.

[DallasBiff]

Sheesh, talk about pissing off your base.

The lib cooks on Food Network love their gas stoves.

[CatOwner]

The left will just take this Federally. And with a stroke of a pin, and the turtling up of the country, it will become law.

[CatOwner]

*pen

[Bob434]

[[With some exceptions, it banned new residential and commercial buildings from installing natural gas piping in favor of electrical lines.]]

NY is going down the very same road- banning all new ‘non electric’ items ie stoves, furnaces, heat etc- wonder if some federal court will side with kathy hokum

[PGR88]

WE are the neo-marxists now.

It was easier to open a private restaurant in China before 1989

[Steely Tom]

With some exceptions, it banned new residential and commercial buildings from installing natural gas piping in favor of electrical lines.

I wonder what the "some exceptions" were.

[Gay State Conservative]

A few years ago Brookline,Massachusetts (home of Mike Dukakis,the Tank Commander) passed a regulation prohibiting gas or oil heating systems in new construction. I wonder if there's a Federal judge would overturn that?

[gibsonguy]

The Hollywood creeps will be in the special exceptions club

[whitney69]

“And with a stroke of a pin, and the turtling up of the country, it will become law.”

With the conservatives controlling the house, it is going to be difficult to get a law put in place. If the SCOTUS allows the law in California with a decision, one they should not entertain, they cannot create law from the bench and it will have to go through the house to be put in place and accomplished through interstate commerce laws which are also state controlled in many ways.

This is going to be a terrible waste of taxpayer monies.

wy69

[dirtymac]

This was a Federal Appeals court finding. The next step would be the Supreme Court.

[Chode]

what’s that do to the NYC law???