The Democrats' incredible war on gas stoves The Republican House can save one of life's basics. The City of Berkeley, California, agreed to stop enforcing — and work to repeal — a landmark climate rulebanning natural gas hookupsin new construction, ending a nearly four-year court battle t...
And in April, a federal appeals court overturned Berkeley, California's first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction. In January, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Chair Alex Hoehn-Saric said he's not looking to ban gas stoves, but his agency is researching gas ...
and pointing to the added security of having a second home energy source to heat and cook with during extreme weather events. They also highlight the preference many home and professional chefs have for using gas-fired stoves.
“Cooking over a natural gas flame is probably the most intimate connection with climate change that we never think about,” Drew Michanowicz, a visiting scientist at Harvard’s public health school, toldThe Hill in June. Watch: Attempt to kill Argentina’s VP fails when handgun misfires ...
As for an all-out ban on gas stoves - it appears that option is on the table, but there has been no federal action yet. Some municipalities have already banned them (both in California and in New York), but this is the first mention of the thought of a federal ban. ...
The Biden administration's efforts to turn up the regulatory heat on gas stoves are drawing bipartisan opposition from apair of senatorswho have introduced a bill to block a ban on gas stoves. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Sen. Joe Man...
In 2019, the city council in Berkeley, California, held a stunning vote: it would bannatural gashookups in all new building construction to reducegreenhouse gas emissionsand the city’s impact on the climate crisis. Nogas furnacesin new homes, the council said. Nogas stoves or ovens. ...