AMERICAN NEWS Mar 17, 2023
San Francisco announces ban on gas-powered furnaces, water heaters
Bay Area officials have announced a ban on the use of natural gas-powered furnaces and water heaters in order to lessen the impact on the city's air quality and residents' health, "particularly in communities of color."
Olivia Rondeau
Mar 17, 2023
Bay Area officials have announced a ban on the use of natural gas-powered furnaces and water heaters in order to lessen the impact on the city's air quality and resident's health, "particularly in communities of color."
On Wednesday, San Francisco's Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board of Directors said in a press release that they had "adopted amendments to Regulation 9, Rules 4 and 6 to eliminate emissions of nitrogen oxides, or NOx, from residential and commercial natural gas furnaces and water heaters in the Bay Area by requiring new appliances to be zero-NOx."
According to the environmental board, "Emissions from natural gas building appliances account for a similar amount of NOx pollution as passenger vehicles in the Bay Area. As a group, they are one of the largest emitters of nitrogen oxides of all stationary sources of air pollution, which the Air District regulates."
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