Ca Republicans invite Trump Administrators to fight the state attack on natural gas: ‘It’s sick’
California’s best Republican leaders They ask Trump administration “to intervene” against encouraging their own state to get rid of traditional energy sources, especially gas, with one MP Fox News Digital that pushing gas appliances is particularly “ill” from the state leadership.
In a letter to the Ministry of Energy Secretary Christopher Wright, Republican leader of the California Assembly James Gallagher, and the leader of the minority of the Senate of the Brian Jones State Senate called Doe In order to consider the efforts of California to “prohibit natural gas and gas devices” and “evaluate these actions and their impact on energy sufficient, energy independence and national security.”
“It is a sick philosophy that tells the victims of fire that we will control how you build your home, we will tell you all the things you can and what you cannot,” Gallagher told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview.
“This also has a lot of huge consequences on The cost of life In California, “Gallagher said.” Once and for all, we decide that you cannot ban gas devices. People need them. They like to have them. They are more affordable. Let’s make sure it won’t go down the road. “
California Republican leaders like the editor James Gallagher are seeking from Trump’s Energy Department to intervene against the state climatic program for the ban on natural gas resources. (Getty Images | Fox News Digital)
In recent years, California has enhanced efforts in the process of abolishing natural gas devices for what MPs claim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the air quality indoors. In 2022. The California Air Resources Committee (Carb) approved a plan for banning the sale of new gas spaces and heaters by 2030, demanding from homes and companies to cross on alternatives of zero shows like electric heat pumps. Energy in the state of 2023. It also stimulates a completely electric construction, which makes the developers more expensive by installing gas devices.
“I hope the federal government is weighing and returning the choice of consumer in California,” Gallagher said. “We should be able to choose whether or not we want electric or gas, and we especially have to make those decisions to ensure that we can afford to live in this state, because currently, current, because of electricity because of this [Gov.] Gavin News And the policies of Democrats, prices through the roof exploded. “
Republicans also ask to come “legally engaged with any Californian competent that is violating EPCA [Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975] in order to impose federal assumption any state or local gas prohibition. “
“In the light of these actions of numerous California state agencies, local self -government and regulatory bodies, we ask the Ministry of Energy to intervene, where it is appropriate, to undo these overcrowding policies,” the letter said.
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President Donald Trump vowed to release American energy, including oil and natural gas. (Getty Images)
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump He ordered Doe to implement policies to strengthen the production and export of natural gas. At the end of last month, he signed an executive order that declared the national energy emergency, which includes measures to improve domestic energy production.
“Expanding consumer choices and removing the loading load on home appliances is a key component of the President Trump’s agenda to reduce costs for the US people,” Doe Dieterich spokesman for Fox News Digital said on Wednesday.
While California – who was a lighthouse of progressive environmental policies For other liberal states – participates in the Standard of the Federal Government Standard, in some cases strict standards of the state exceeds federal demands. Dietderich said that the department “conducts a comprehensive overview and is working to improve a healthy approach what priority priority of accessibility and election for all Americans” when asked about a letter from Republicans in California.
“Any standards should include cost analysis and benefits given the advanced cost of buying new products and reflecting the actual savings of costs for US families,” Wright said in a statement last week as he announced his first secretary order.
President Donald Trump talks to reporters while on Monday he signs executive commands at an oval office at the White House in Washington, DC, Monday. (AP/Alex Brandon)
More than 70 cities in Golden State, starting with Berkeley in 2019, adopted a local regulation for banning natural gas in new buildings. However, 2024. the judgment of the Federal Court She overturned Berkeley’s ban, which made some municipalities reconsider their policies. In the meantime, the state legislative authority has issued a proposal for a law that requires a warning sticker on gas stove, citing health risks associated with the shows indoors. If it signed in the law, California would become the first state to ban gas devices.
And the Democratic majority of California has the support of the Government. Gavin News. In recent years, news has signed laws that limit new oil and gas wells near certain places and signed in the neighborhood to transition to completely electric systems. In addition, in December 2024. State regulators approved a plan to reduce reliance on high storage of natural gas.
In a recent interview with CNN, Pamela Brown earlier this month, Newsa said that homeowners who lost their homes in wild fires in Los Angeles “cannot renew the same, so we have to renew ourselves with science, we have to renew ourselves with climate reality In mind in mind […]. “
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