Bans

A New York law enacted by Gov. Kathy Hochul earlier this year to ban natural gas appliances and infrastructure in new buildings is facing a legal challenge by a coalition of businesses and labor unions. Hochul in May signed into law the All-Electric Building Act, included in the state’s fiscal 2024 budget. The law would…

New York State is poised to ban natural gas hookups in construction of new residential buildings by the end of 2025 after Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced an agreement on the state’s 2024 budget.  “We’re going to be the first state of the nation to advance zero-emission new homes and buildings, beginning in 2025 for…

As dust settles on the nationwide natural gas-versus-electric stove story, regulators for California’s San Francisco Bay Area have determined that natural gas stoves are safe for now, but gas furnaces and water heaters must be phased out in four years.  In a near-unanimous vote, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) on Wednesday amended…

Texas banned local and state government entities from holding stakes in 10 financial companies and nearly 350 investment funds for allegedly boycotting the oil and natural gas industry. Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar on Wednesday posted a list of companies and funds that his department determined had shunned oil and gas companies as part of a…

In largely symbolic gestures, lawmakers in Oregon and Washington have passed bills that would ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

Despite having recently struck down local hydraulic fracturing (fracking) bans, Colorado continues to be the test ground and launching pad for increasingly well-organized and funded national anti-fossil fuel campaigns, the head of the Western Energy Alliance (WEA), Tim Wigley, told an audience at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference on Wednesday in Bismarck, ND.

The Colorado Court of Appeals has asked the state’s high court to take jurisdiction over appeals of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) restrictions enacted by Longmont and Fort Collins, CO (see Shale Daily,Nov. 10, 2014).

The Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) on Monday filed a complaint seeking a declaratory judgment to invalidate a five-year ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the city and county of Broomfield, CO. It was filed in the state district court in Broomfield.

A state district court in Boulder, CO, recently completed a hearing on the oil and natural gas industry’s legal challenges to the Longmont city ban on drilling, including hydraulic fracturing (fracking), within the city. A judge is being asked to invalidate the city ban (see Shale Daily, July 17, 2013).