Local Gas Bans Are Illegal. Washington Is Right to Stop Them.

Originally published by Save Jersey.

A small township in New Jersey has become the latest front in a national fight over not only energy policy but also the rule of law.

The U.S. Department of Justice recently sued Morris Township over a 2022 ordinance requiring certain new apartment buildings to be constructed as “all-electric.” The rule bars natural gas, propane, and fuel-oil infrastructure in apartment-style developments with twelve or more units. No gas piping means no gas appliances.

Local officials describe the policy as a climate measure. In truth, it is something else: an attempt to bypass federal law and to bar townspeople from the benefit of using cost-effective natural gas.

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