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Wilson Truong posted on the Nextdoor social media platform where users can send messages to a group in their neighborhood in a Culver City, California, community. Writing as if he were a resident of the Fox Hills neighborhood, Truong warned the group members that their city leaders were considering stronger building codes that would discourage natural gas lines in newly built homes and businesses. In a message with the subject line “Culver City banning gas stoves?” Truong wrote: “First time I heard about it I thought it was bogus, but I received a newsletter from the city about public hearings to discuss it…Will it pass???!!! I used an electric stove but it never cooked as well as a gas stove so I ended up switching back.”
A few weeks ago, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office came out with a dual announcement about buildings and climate change. On one hand, the most recent greenhouse gas inventory for the city showed that buildings emissions had unfortunately gone up between 2017 and 2018. On the other, Mayor Durkan’s office was also introducing a policy to eliminate most fossil fuel uses in new commercial and large multifamily buildings in Seattle.
Seattle residents rightly wondered why residential buildings weren’t included in this policy. The answer was pretty wonky: the proposed change came as part of an already-scheduled update to the Seattle’s energy code, which does not cover residential buildings. When Seattle City Council moves forward with approving the policy, it will have taken the first step towards all-electric buildings in Seattle, but there will still be work to do to make sure all buildings are covered by future policies. And that work will need to come from multiple fronts.
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and has been republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The website Women for Natural Gas is a pink-tinged, fancy-cursive-drenched love letter to the oil and gas industry. A prominently featured promo video shows women in hard hats and on rig sites. “Who’s powering the world? We are!” enthuses the narrator. Viewers can click through to a “Herstory” timeline of women working in the oil sector. Another page, about the group’s grassroots network of supporters, announces, “We are women for natural gas,” and shows three professionally dressed ladies alongside their testimonials. There’s a Carey White gushing, “The abundance of oil and gas in Texas helps keep prices at the pump lower.” One Natalie Smith (formerly attributed as Rebecca Washington) raves, “Natural gas is a safe, reliable source of energy that provides countless numbers of jobs.”
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