Emma is CNBC's go-to green ideologue on staff.
“By completely prohibiting the installation of natural gas piping
within newly constructed buildings, the City of Berkeley has waded into a
domain preempted by Congress,” Judge Patrick Bumatay, a Trump
appointee, wrote for the panel. ...
All three judges on the panel were Republican appointees. The ruling reversed a 2021 decision by a U.S. district judge who had blocked the challenge to the city’s ban.
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The thing will probably go to the full 9th Circuit next, and then possibly to the Supreme Court of the United States.
