DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Voters in Berkeley, California, soundly rejected a proposal that would have required owners of certain larger buildings to pay a fee in order to use natural gas.
Measure GG would have required owners of multifamily or commercial buildings larger than 15,000 square feet to pay up in order to use natural gas. It failed with 68.25% of voters moving to reject the measure, according to Alameda County election data.
Environmentalists and labor unions advocated for “Measure GG” on the grounds that reducing emissions from buildings is imperative to fight climate change, while opponents derided it in part because they view the proposal as a new and costly tax that will chase away restaurants and small businesses, according to Bloomberg News.
Measure GG would have directly affected about 600 buildings in Berkeley, according to The…
