The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against two Bay Area cities seeking to end local bans against natural gas infrastructure.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in the Northern District of California, accuses the cities of Morgan Hill and Petaluma of driving up energy costs for consumers and weakening American energy dominance in requiring newly built residences be all electric and not dependent upon natural gas.
Morgan Hill’s ban was adopted in 2019, while Petaluma’s came two years later, according to The Mercury News…