The ban provides exempts for restaurants, manufacturing plants, crematories, and life science labs while granting certain public buildings and larger structures a delay through 2027.
Montgomery County, Md., on Tuesday enacted the East Coast’s first countywide ban on using natural gas for heating purposes in new buildings.
County Executive Marc Elrich has not yet signed the ban into law, but is expected to do so as he has previously voiced support for the measure, according to Energy Wire. The nine members of the Montgomery County Council, all Democrats, voted unanimously to enact the Comprehensive Building Decarbonization plan, which is slated to take effect in 2026.
A template of the plan, introduced earlier this year, stated that 50% of the county’s greenhouse gas emissions for the year 2017 came from environmental inefficiencies, which the new all-electric standards would gradually work to reduce.
The ban provides exempts for restaurants, manufacturing plants, crematories, and life science labs while granting certain public buildings and larger structures a delay through 2027.
Montgomery County is the largest in Maryland. Bordering Washington, D.C., it is home to roughly 1.1 million people. County councilors expect their passage of a ban would serve to inspire other municipalities to enact similar plans.
Of course
Md going down the tubes
Per Biden !!! No heat allowed this winter
Heat is Global Warming ( Not Green )
Heat causes Global Warming !!
Heat is Not GREEN says BIDEN !!!!!
why not? I’m am sure this pos is being rewarded handsomely by the electric utility industries. they are so f’n corrupt. the libs over there deserve this bs, the shore?
It’s coming folks. They always roll it out in certain areas first. And with a liberal Governor now. Oh is it coming.
Stupid …. Natural gas produces a much cleaner combustion than the coal that will be used at night time to produce the electricity needed for heating these new building.
Should be ILLEGAL !!! STOP the Democrat madness
Natural gas is the cleanest heat > DUGH
And it is PLENTIFUL !!!! DUGH
Leave it to Greenmonkeys to ban natural gas use at a crematory.
Give Jake Day a couple of weeks so he can do the same thing inside the city limits of Salisbury. Meanwhile, people are getting stabbed to death outside downtown eating establishments.
Bike Lanes have Priority over heat !!!