Action Items:
Let’s Turn OFF The Gas!
“There’s no pathway to stabilizing the climate without phasing gas out of our homes and buildings. This is a must-do for the climate and a livable planet,” said Rachel Golden of the Sierra Club’s building electrification campaign.
The British medical journal, The Lancet, reported in 1996 that the use of domestic gas appliances, particularly gas stoves, was linked to increased asthma, respiratory illness, and impaired lung function.
Local grassroots groups, including 350 VC Climate Hub, Sierra Club Los Padres, CFROG (Climate First: Replacing Oil and Gas), Citizens' Climate Lobby Ventura, the Community Environmental Council, Food and Water Watch, and the Conejo Climate Coalition, have joined a statewide winter 2021 campaign to prohibit fossil gas connections in new homes and commercial buildings. Together, we’ve composed a “Let’s Turn OFF The Gas” letter, addressed to the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, the City Councils of Oxnard, T.O. and Ventura, and the Mayors of all 7 other cities in the county, sharing the community benefits of all-electric REACH codes.
Please consider signing and sharing our letter of encouragement to YOUR elected officials urging them to act now. Let's Turn Off the Gas!