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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 ...
More than 70 cities and counties in California have banned natural gas hookups in most new buildings, but the state has no statewide prohibition.

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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