Editorial: New York banned gas from new buildings. Why not California?
New York made climate history last week, becoming the first state in the nation to pass a law banning natural gas in most new buildings. But here in Los Angeles, we admit feeling a tinge of jealousy that California wasn’t the first. Why not? This is, after all, the state that’s declared itself a climate leader, adopted rules to end the sale of new gas-fueled cars, and where the city of ...
by Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
May 10, 2023
3 minutes
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New York made climate history last week, becoming the first state in the nation to pass a law banning natural gas in most new buildings.
But here in Los Angeles, we admit feeling a tinge of jealousy that California wasn’t the first. Why not?
This is, after all, the state that’s declared itself a climate leader, adopted rules to end the sale of new gas-fueled cars, and where the city of Berkeley in 2019 enacted the nation’s first
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