A federal appeals court overturned Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new construction. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that federal energy regulations preempted the city’s ordinance.
In 2019, Berkeley passed the country’s first prohibition on the installation of natural gas piping in new residential and commercial buildings as part of…
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