The city of San Francisco will begin banning natural gas as a heating or cooking energy source for all new residential and commercial buildings—except restaurants—as of next June, adding to a prohibition already in place banning natural gas in new city-owned buildings.The U.S. Sierra Club called the ban, passed unanimously by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week, the “strictest natural gas prohibition passed by a big city so far in California,” writes Bloomberg. Similar measures are popping up all over, it adds, with nearly 40 municipalities throughout the state now enforcing natural gas hookup restrictions.
Source: San Francisco Passes Landmark Natural Gas Ban for New Buildings – The Energy Mix
