Action Alert: Threat to Natural Gas Usage Still in Effect 🚨

When Washington lawmakers enacted a defacto ban on natural gas service earlier this year, people across the state were outraged. Just a few weeks after the new law was signed by the Governor, a half million Washingtonians signed an initiative to get a repeal on the ballot. At the election nearly two million Washingtonians voted in favor of that repeal (I-2066), resulting in its passage.

The message could not have been more clear: Washingtonians want to keep their gas stoves. We want to keep our heating systems (the recent bomb cyclone that left more than 500,000 people without electricity is certainly an example why!). We want energy that is affordable. Most importantly, we want the freedom to make our own energy choices.

But now, the state’s regulatory body – The Washington State Building Code Council (SBCC) – has plans to ignore all of that.

To comply with the passage of the natural gas ban repeal by voters, the Council has a deadline of this Thursday the 5th to repeal energy codes that block customers’ access to natural gas in new construction. The SBCC has no plans to address this, however.

Simply put, these unelected bureaucrats have no legal or moral right to ignore the will of the people in a manner like this, and we need to hold them accountable.

Email them now and tell them to enact the natural gas service!

Email the Washington State Building Code Council

Each day the Council delays action on this undermines the will of voters, hurts families and small businesses, and increases the cost of new housing. Please email them now.