The policy is not a wholesale gas ban, but rather a requirement that all new home heating and cooling systems are free of NOx, which is shown to contribute to poor health and the warming of the planet.
Homes in all nine Bay Area counties could soon be heated and cooled without the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels.
The policy is not a wholesale gas ban but rather a requirement that all new home heating and cooling systems are free of NOx, a particulate-forming gas increasingly shown to contribute to poor health outcomes and the warming of the planet. “The reason the Air District is tackling water heaters and furnaces first is because those uses account for 89% of the outdoor NOx emissions from homes,” Elwell said at this week’s closely watched hearing.
Recent studies show that 99% of people on the planet are exposed to unhealthy levels of PM 2.5, released by the combustion of gasoline, oil, diesel or wood. But exposure to such pollution falls disproportionately on low-income communities and communities of color.
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