https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/04/30/how-will-courts-rebuke-of-berkeleys-natural-gas-ban-affect-the-national-movement-it-began/

When Berkeley became the first U.S. city to ban construction of new natural gas lines in 2019, it pioneered an approach to reducing carbon emissions and pollutants that has since spread around the Bay Area and across the country.

Now Berkeley has become a pioneer of a different sort, as an April appellate court ruling against the city’s ban is imperiling similar restrictions on natural gas and challenging the growing national electrification movement.