In 2019, Berkeley became the first US city to ban new natural gas hookups in building construction. This week, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit of the US Court of Appeals cited a 1975 law to toss out Berkeley's ban.
Since 2019, Berkeley's law has been adopted in one form or another by cities across the US—including more than 70 cities in California—and last week, tentatively, by New York State.
The jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit panel is restricted to 11 Western states and territories, but its ruling sends a strong signal that a national legal test of gas hookup bans may be looming.
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