Republican States Block Natural Gas Bans
As initiatives to ban natural gas ramp up in some U.S. cities, especially Democrat-led cities, a growing number of Republican-introduced bills are seeking to preemptively quash any such bans on a statewide level.
Berkeley, California, was one of the first cities to implement a natural gas ban. Some cities in Washington, New York, and Massachusetts have followed suit. Most bans prohibit natural gas hookups in new construction only, but some have goals to gradually implement the bans in existing homes.
Iowa and Kansas passed state laws this month to prohibit their cities from imposing natural gas bans, following the example of Arizona, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Louisiana last year and earlier this year. Several other midwestern states have introduced similar bills.
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A Delta plane taxis at Los Angeles International Airport on July 12, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. | Mario Tama/Getty Images
California records reveal Maui lawmakers, other pandemic travel
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California lawmakers repeatedly traveled out of state last year on interest group-funded trips despite the coronavirus pandemic, according to financial disclosures.
Legislators headed to Portland, Ore., and Seattle in the fall. Some visited a conference in Arizona days before Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered California into a statewide lockdown. Lawmakers went to Japan before the coronavirus swamped California but when it was already present in China.
Documents also confirm POLITICO’s earlier reporting that more than a dozen lawmakers of both parties flew to Hawaii in November and revealed a previously undisclosed attendee: state Sen. Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita), who has since become Senate minority leader.
Report: More Calif legislators who traveled to Maui in November named sfgate.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfgate.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
California Democrat lawmakers are in Maui partying with lobbyists. They’re in Hawaii. With lobbyists. In the middle of a pandemic, while they tell you to stay home and have no more than 6 people in your home for Thanksgiving, they are out partying in Maui.
California is getting ready to lock down completely.
“Democrat” lawmakers schmooze at Hawaii getaway, pandemic or no pandemic – https://t.co/wU7JsmnJeg /// There. Fixed it for you. https://t.co/6hmGfgbEzN
Your business is closed, and your children can’t go to school. You can’t even travel anywhere. People are losing their freedoms and their mental health. Suicides and drug abuse are on the rise. The illness is exaggerated, and the cure is worse than the illness.