🌿 Environment 1d ago · Alison F. Takemura, Canary Media

A new gas line or cash to electrify? California lets households choose.

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A new gas line or cash to electrify? California lets households choose.
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When one of the nation’s biggest investor-owned utilities, Pacific Gas and Electric, wanted to replace Merrian Borgeson’s aging gas service line in Berkeley, California, she asked the company not to do it.



Borgeson, who is the California policy director for climate and energy at the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council, explained that the repair wasn’t necessary: She was in the process of fully electrifying her home and would be replacing her stove — the only gas appliance left in

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