Governor Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers have reportedly agreed on a law that would make New York the first state in the US to ban natural gas in most new buildings.
The law would require new buildings to be all-electric, using heat pumps and induction stoves for heating and cooking, as part of a wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. While the exact terms of the law have not been disclosed, it is believed that the ban will come into effect in 2026 for most new buildings under seven stories and in 2029 for taller buildings.
The agreement reportedly comes after negotiations over non-fiscal measures in the state budget and is modeled on a similar law passed in New York City two years ago. Other cities across the US, including Berkeley, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC, have enacted similar measures.
The legal validity of the New York law may be contested, as demonstrated by the recent legal challenges faced by a similar gas ban in Berkeley, California, where a judge struck down a similar measure.
While Republican senators in New York have referred to the court ruling in Berkeley as a reason for the Democratic party to abandon their efforts, it is important to note that the ruling’s impact is limited and does not automatically apply to New York.
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Comes the summer , & Con Ed has to “Brown Out” the power because they can’t keep up with the demand .How are they going to supply electric with this new demand ????
This is just insane, gas is much healthier than electric or even worse induction
there goes cookng on yom tov
start going solar
In other news, 20 blacks were slaughtered like worthless sheep on the streets of NYC and the privileged white Karen, Kathy Hochul, couldn’t care less. Keep that cashless bail going. As long as big woke government bans natural gas, murder in this City will disappear. Thanks governor.
GE offers a Yom Tov mode on their electric ovens now, just in time.
i guess hot plates will be used over a 3 day yom tov.
To: yuda the maccabi
Electric stove tops can work well.
Another reason not to live in NYC
most of us will not be around when this Idiyadatty
will prevail , But Mossiach will be Iyh
Happy Purim
When the goyim (this includes OTD Jews) get some pseudo-scientific idea into their heads, they can take it to tremendous extremes. If you think that “climate science” is bad, remember there are still people alive who remember when “race science” was was the intellectual basis for many awful public policies (“Jim Crow” in America, a world wide “eugenics” movement aimed at improving racial purity, Colonialism in Africa and Asia, and of course, the Holocaust by the Europeans). Over time, fake sciences tends to be discredited, and as the anti-technology measures it is introducing cause increasing amounts of disruption without affecting the weather or climate, it will tend to be discredited (hopefully before it causes massive deaths).
Electric heat is so expensive!
Generated mostly from dirtier fossil fuels (coal, oil).
NY had its last clear chance with Zeldin. It’s back to the 70s. Or worse.
Why is this country taking useless measures to lower greenhouse gases when China’s CO2 emissions make up almost 30% of the world’s total, more than 2x the US?
Im sure the lubbavichers from the 770 are going to make an appeal
@cholentmitkugel
they cook great except that on yom tov, even if you use a shobbos clock to turn it on you cant higher or lower the flame for cooking
All I know is that I switched from a gas boiler to electric split units last year, and my heating bill has now doubled.
Guys
It’s only for new buildings