Rocky Mountain Institute – California Globe

If You Like Your Gas Stove, You Can Keep Your Gas Stove

March 28, 2025 7:34 amMarch 29, 2025 8:51 am

They are coming for your gas-powered car, your gas stove, your gas water heater, your gas furnace, your gas dryer, your gas grille, your gas blower, your gas fireplace, and any other gas-powered appliance or vehicle you can think of....

Gavin Newsom is ‘All In’ on Undermining Trump EPA

March 21, 2025 10:45 amMarch 21, 2025 10:45 am

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced earlier this month that the EPA will undertake 31 historic deregulation actions to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and Power the Great American Comeback. Administrator Zeldin is taking a DOGE flame-thrower...

Actual Headline: ‘What Happens When Climate Change and the Mental-Health Crisis Collide?’

April 15, 2024 2:53 amApril 15, 2024 6:30 pm

“What happens when climate change and the mental-health crisis collide?” That actual headline in Nature.com triggered my BS meter. What does climate change have to do with mental health? “The warming planet is worsening mental illness and distress. Researchers need...

City of Sacramento’s Sneaky All-Electrification Plan of Existing Buildings and Homes

December 15, 2023 9:12 amDecember 16, 2023 9:06 am

The City of Sacramento is developing a plan to electrify every building in the city to create an all-electric city – under the guise of its “Climate Action and Adaptation Plan” that details “the City’s efforts to support the State...

Green Totalitarianism: They’re Coming for Your Water Heater Now

July 23, 2023 3:39 pmJuly 23, 2023 3:40 pm

First they came for your internal combustion engine automobiles and diesel trucks. Next they came for your gas stoves and BBQs. Then they came for your shower heads, water faucets, dishwashers, air conditioners and portable gas generators. Now the Biden...

The Spark that Lit the Gas Stove Debate

March 17, 2023 3:40 pmMarch 17, 2023 4:27 pm

On January 1, 2023 it is likely most Americans woke up with a hangover. On January 1, 2023, it is a almost a certainty that no American woke up worried that the gas stove in their kitchen was secretly killing...

Senators Cruz, Manchin Propose ‘The Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act’

February 5, 2023 10:00 pmFebruary 6, 2023 10:13 am

We know that California is pushing to become the first state to ban natural gas heaters, water heaters, and furnaces by 2030, a policy of the California Air Resources Board, entirely made up of appointees by the governor. As the Globe...