{"id":574453,"date":"2023-05-04T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T04:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=574453"},"modified":"2023-05-04T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:30:05","slug":"new-york-becomes-first-us-state-to-ban-gas-in-new-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-york-becomes-first-us-state-to-ban-gas-in-new-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"New York becomes first US state to ban gas in new buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York has become the first US state to pass a law banning gas stoves and other fossil fuels in most new buildings, in a victory for environmental activists.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation adopted by lawmakers in the Democratic-run state legislature late Tuesday will require newly built homes to be all-electric in three years&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>The move aims to tackle climate change by reducing New York&#8217;s dependence on natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Changing the ways we make and use energy to decrease our reliance on fossil fuels will help ensure a healthier environment for us and our children,&#8221; said state assembly speaker Carl Heastie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York has become the first US state to pass a law banning gas stoves and other fossil fuels in most new buildings, in a victory for environmental activists. The legislation adopted by lawmakers in the Democratic-run state legislature late Tuesday will require newly built homes to be all-electric in three years&#8217; time. The move aims to tackle climate change by reducing New York&#8217;s dependence on natural gas. &#8220;Changing the ways we make and use energy to decrease our reliance on fossil fuels will help ensure a healthier environment for us and our children,&#8221; said state assembly speaker Carl Heastie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}