Posted on 01/02/2024 10:28:15 PM PST by KingofZion
A federal appeals court rejected a petition Tuesday to rehear a case related to a natural gas ban proposed by the City of Berkeley, California, which the panel ruled was illegal last year.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ultimately denied Berkeley's petition for rehearing en banc — a motion that received support from the Biden administration, Democratic-led states and environmentalists — after it failed to receive majority support from the court's non-recused active judges. Berkeley filed the motion last year after the court in April that a Berkeley law banning natural gas pipes in new construction violated federal statute.
In July 2019, Berkeley's city council passed the ban which was set to go into effect in January 2020, making the city the first in the nation to approve such a measure. Berkeley Councilwoman Kate Harrison, who authored the legislation, said at the time that it was part of the city's effort to take "more drastic action" on climate change and curb greenhouse gas emissions.
However, months after it was approved, the California Restaurant Association (CRA) filed a federal lawsuit challenging the city's ability to pass a law banning new natural gas hookups. After a lower court ruled in favor of Berkeley in July 2021, the CRA filed an appeal, leading to the Ninth Circuit ruling in April.
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Bumatay was appointed by Trump.
The environmental wackos won’t stop they will now move to Plan B, you can have gas but the cost will be enormous thru additional taxes and regulations that make the cost of new construction so high no one can afford it
The ban was causing political problems for Democrats in the upcoming election. If the Democrats win, it will be back, but at the FEDERAL level, and the judges will not have any option other to rubber-stamp it.
Wtf are these nutty libs doing? Its like they’re testing the high courts to see what they can get a way with. Like a mystery shopper going into a biz to see how tf the place is run and if its owning up to its standards of acceptable procedure. They letting in masses of illegals with no conscience of the consequences to the point that their own lib states are complaining about it. Making legal case after case of McDonalds-coffee-burn equivalent court hearings...frivolously wasting the taxpayers money...to do what...just see what they can get away with?? This country is going to hell.....and the libs are just trying to see what its going to take for their end game strategy to slam dunk the place in one massive play down the road. The 2024 election is going to be riggd bigger than SHT....or they’re going to ‘suicide’ trump like they did Epstein. Rant /off
bttt
Earth provides natural gas for some of the 8 billion
people living on it.
A few idiots just don’t care.
2024 has an early WIN!
Especially amusing since the State of California has decreed that natural gas is a zero emissions energy source and as such is ‘okay’ to use. Mostly because if they didn’t, their own laws would make them unable to buy power from out of state and force them to close down their current base load generation stations.
Basically, liberals get a charge out of rhetoric. They rely on the courts or Republicans to pull them back from the edge. It makes them virtuous, but they can also lay blame on others when they don’t get what they claim they want.
At some this strategy will fail badly and we will all pay a price with our lives because of it.
RE: Political problems for Dems
GOP should have TV and other ads showing an elderly person saying “I’m cold” and relative saying “The government won’t let us turn the heat up.” Or people sweating and red faced and “The government won’t let us use air conditioning.”
Then push the freedoms we are losing to use a gas stove or a non EV car.
They can have my gas stove, furnace, and water heater right after they get my gun out of my hands. I’m to old to fight and to old to run that’s why I carry a gun. I got heat on in winter, stove on when I eat, and hot water when I shower and weapon near when I shower. It’s been this way for years. As my string runs out, my ways get set harder. The boys in Texas had the right idea. If you want it. Come and take it.
It’s pretty simple: Since they reject God and religion, in their place they manufacture their own phony “religion” of environmentalism, accompanied by false virtue in the form of various sacrifices they demand. But their version of “religion” is marked by arrogance, self-righteousness, and forcing others to submit to it, while Christianity is marked by humility, denial of self, and a voluntary choice to follow, or not.
Radical environmentalism is a way in which they act out their mental issues, but unfortunately they demand that everyone else participate in their madness.
Berkeley should get what it wants. Ban all energy there.
Thats why...and how.
“GOP should have TV and other ads showing an elderly person saying “I’m cold” and relative saying “The government won’t let us turn the heat up.” Or people sweating and red faced and “The government won’t let us use air conditioning.””
Agree, that would be a GREAT COMMERCIAL, and the Dems would do the equivalent in New York Minute.
No matter. They will just make it illegal to sell. Try and find an incandescent light bulb.
Instead we are using ionized Lead. I am sure there is nothing about heating Lead into ionizing particles in our homes that Pfizer and Moderna can’t fix.
If California would ban use of natural gas & can’t provide electricity to meet the needs (and cost) of energy, then what’s the alternative? Let’s just outlaw liberal thinking in the other states & let California go their own way. There’s no reason why their peculiar binding regulations should affect any other state. It might save some money, too, because some of the federal bureaus could be eliminated. Not a bad thing.
SCOTUS will only get involved when another circuit decides differently.
We should thank Berkeley for taking this to the 9th circuit as the ban on the ban now applies to the whole 9th circuit.
The GOP is called the Stupid Party for a reason. Actually, multiple reasons.
Ummmm.... what are you talking about? Are you perhaps confusing the element lead (atomic symbol Pb) with the electronic light emitting diode? Because the latter, abbreviated as LED, does not contain lead nor does it use lead to generate light.
If you are referring to those stupid compact fluorescent bulbs, those are emphatically on the way out. Everyone is switching to LEDs or has already moved to them and the CFLs are actually starting to get harder and harder to find in the stores.
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