With LA's Vote, America's Two Largest Cities Have Said No New Fossil Gas

The Los Angeles City Council voted, on Friday, to prohibit fossil fuels in new construction. The Council directed departments

agree they will be used in hard-to-clean-up sectors like heavy industry and not in easy-to-decarbonize sectors like buildings.LA joins the chorus of climate change suffering cities, counties, and now states that recognize building electrification as the clearest path towards a decarbonized, petrostate-free world.

In banning fossil gas from new buildings, the city has taken a crucial first step to prevent new fossil pipelines from being laid. Retrofitting the tens of millions of buildings nationwide that are connected to hissing gas meters will be a herculean task, but the speed of the electrification movement thus far along with the fact that the two largest US cities are onboard suggests there is plenty of reason to believe we’ll be up for the task, one city at a time.

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