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By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina
January 13, 2021
| 11:15 a.m.
At the end of a marathon, 9-hour meeting, the Santa Barbara City Council late Tuesday night directed city staff to come up with a plan to require all-electric construction with new buildings.
City officials said transitioning away from natural gas use in buildings will improve indoor air quality and health, and even potentially generate significant new jobs.
Electrification is the most viable and reliable path to zero-emission buildings, they said. 
The science isn t complicated, the science is clear, said Councilwoman Kristen Sneddon. I am a scientist and I teach science. The knowledge of climate change has been around for decades. I learned it when I was in elementary school in the 1970s. ....

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