Industry Urges DOJ To Challenge Local Gas Hookup Rules, Building Codes

Industry groups and free market think tanks are encouraging the Trump administration to embrace arguments that various federal laws preempt state and local ordinances that ban or limit the use of gas appliances, a move aimed to bolster the administration’s ongoing attacks on state climate policies. “By banning fossil fuel infrastructure, they are setting an appliance energy use standard of zero for all gas appliances -- a stricter standard than the federal appliance standard, which causes a violation of” the...