{"id":350526,"date":"2024-11-08T08:19:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T07:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=350526"},"modified":"2024-11-08T08:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T07:19:54","slug":"voters-in-kamala-harris-hometown-smack-down-initiative-to-tax-natural-gas-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=350526","title":{"rendered":"Voters In Kamala Harris\u2019 Hometown Smack Down Initiative to Tax Natural Gas Use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Voters in Berkeley, California, soundly rejected a proposal that would have required owners of certain larger buildings to pay a fee in order to use natural gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Measure GG<\/a> would have required owners of multi-family or commercial buildings larger than 15,000 square feet to pay up in order to use natural gas. It failed with 68.25% of voters moving to reject the measure, according<\/a> to Alameda County election data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmentalists and labor unions advocated for \u201cMeasure GG\u201d on the grounds that reducing emissions from buildings is imperative to fight climate change, while opponents derided it in part because they view the proposal as a new and costly tax that will chase away restaurants and small businesses, according<\/a> to Bloomberg News. (Stream The Daily Caller\u2019s Original Documentary \u2018Cleaning Up Kamala\u2019 HERE)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kamala Harris Shows Off Gas Stove On Thanksgiving After Biden Admin Proposed Crackdown https:\/\/t.co\/DMpVHnqJ0C<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Measure GG<\/a> would have directly affected about 600 buildings in Berkeley, according<\/a> to The Daily Californian. Vice President Kamala Harris, who suffered a crushing defeat to President-Elect Donald Trump on Tuesday, originally hails from Berkeley, according<\/a> to The New York Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkeley banned natural gas hookups in newly-constructed buildings in 2019, a policy that liberal cities like Los Angeles and New York subsequently mimicked, according to Bloomberg News. The California Restaurant Association challenged the Berkeley ban in court, and a federal appellate court overturned<\/a> the policy in April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials from the Biden Justice Department and Department of Energy filed a June 2023 amicus brief<\/a> with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit asking the court to reverse its decision nixing Berkeley\u2019s 2019 gas ban, but the court ruled<\/a> in January that it would not be revisiting that decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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