Eugene has banned natural gas and other fossil fuel infrastructure in new homes, townhouses and other residential structures no taller than three stories. City councilors voted 5-3 Monday night to ...
Natural gas today meets more than a third of the total U.S. energy needs. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation ...
In April 2023, we reported on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s decision in California Restaurant Association (CRA) v. City of Berkeley striking down a Berkeley ordinance that prohibited ...
A measure that would ban natural gas and other fossil fuel infrastructure in some new residential construction in Eugene will appear on a future ballot. Eugene Residents for Energy Choice submitted ...
The revitalization of the Pearl District - an area west of the Willamette River in northwest Portland, OR - has been underway for almost ten years. This area had previously been dominated by ...
Berkeley’s breakthrough measure that banned the use of natural gas in new construction was overturned on Monday by a federal appeals court, thus supporting the argument made by restaurant owners who ...
Half of the states, however, have moved in the opposite direction, preempting the passage of local government ordinances that prohibit or restrict natural gas use. 5 The preemptions are driven by ...
BERKELEY -- A federal appeals court on Monday overturned Berkeley, California's first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed ...
When Berkeley became the first U.S. city to ban construction of new natural gas lines in 2019, it pioneered an approach to reducing carbon emissions and pollutants that has since spread around the Bay ...