Washington state officials, citing concerns related to a recent federal appeals court ruling, have delayed rules that were to begin July 1 that would have required electric heat pumps to be used in new residential and commercial construction, basically banning natural gas hookups.Natural gas ...
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Why do some US cities consider to ban natural gas?A. They have found cleaner energy to replace i.B. They consider t can speed up global warming.C. They believe gas leaks pose high risk to safety.D. They think it increases carbon dioxide emissions.9. How does the author support ...
This is a tricky one. Over the last 30 years, the public has been fed a huge media blitz to convince us that by moving to natural gas to get off coal power, would be an *environmental benefit*. Their PR firms constantly talked up how environmentally friendly natural gas was, both in ...
E&C recently advanced his bipartisan Nuclear Fuel Security Act, which would establish and expand US nuclear fuel programs to boost domestic uranium mining, production, enrichment, and conversion capacity. He also supports the natural gas industry and currently co-chairs the Congression...
The California Public Utilities Commission has initiated rulemaking to accelerate a transition from natural gas. Within the state, the city of Berkeley on Jan. 1, 2020, initiated a ban on new natural gas hookups, and similar bans are being replicated in a dozen other California cities, including...
Initiative 2066became law on Dec. 5, 2024,making it illegal to ban, restrict or otherwise disincentivize natural gas as an energy choice. BIAW has providedguidance forworkingwith your local building officials. Learn more Viewthe two-hour webinaron the new codes offered by Washington State Universi...
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2045. New programs shepherded through the state legislature by Inslee would alsodramatically expand access to electric vehicles,support and eventually mandate energy efficiency in large buildings, andban “super-pollutants”that can do thousands of times more damage to the environment than carbon ...
Starting June 1st,Washingtonbusinesses will not be able to use or offer styrofoam containers. The law,banning the distribution of expanded polystyrene containerswas approved in 2021. The first part of the law went into effect of June 2023, banning foam packing peanuts. Thestyrofoam ban includes: ...