New York Parliament Imposes Ban on Gas Stoves and Heaters in Future Constructions

The New York Parliament has approved a budget of 229 billion dollars, which plans to impose ovens, plates and electric heaters in future constructions.

The State of New York voted overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday the total ban in 2029 of stoves and heaters using gas and other fossil fuels in all new residential, office and administrative buildings. A first in the United States. The Parliament of the country’s fourth state (20 million inhabitants) has approved a budget for 2023-24 of 229 billion dollars, which plans to impose ovens, plates and electric heaters in future constructions, according to a press release from parliamentarians new -Yorkers, confirming information from the Washington Post. ”

Changing the way we produce and use energy to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels will help provide us and our children with a healthier environment.

“, rejoiced in the press release Carl Heastie, speaker of the legislative assembly of New York.

Joe Biden opposed to this ban

The gas ban, if the law is enacted and not overturned in court, will have to apply in small residential and office buildings of less than seven floors by 2026 and three years later for towers. According to the Washington Post, this is unprecedented in the United States, where a controversy over gas stoves stirred the political world in January. In an interview with the Bloomberg agency, Richard Trumka, a member of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), said that due to the pollution and health risk of this type of cooker, their ban was possible. Faced with the outcry among Republicans and within the American gas lobby, the White House had to assure that President Joe Biden ”

did not support a ban on gas stoves

» and that the «

independent commission would not ban them

».

Two recent scientific studies, which have been debated, pointed to gas cooking as being responsible for more than 12% of childhood asthma cases in the United States and the European Union, where respectively 35% and 30% of kitchens run on gas. This rate is 52% in New York State. ”

In this budget, we are taking significant steps to reduce our carbon emissions and shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources…to become a cleaner, greener state.

“said Didi Barrett, Democratic parliamentarian from New York, where environmentalists make their voices heard.