{"id":297427,"date":"2026-07-16T08:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297427\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:18:17","slug":"gops-bruce-blakeman-slams-ny-gas-stove-ban-as-green-energy-scam-thats-crushing-construction-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297427\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP’s Bruce Blakeman slams NY gas stove ban as \u2018green energy scam\u2019 that’s crushing construction industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York\u2019s gas stove ban is burning developers!<\/p>\n

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman put the heat on Gov. Kathy Hochul Wednesday\u2014 slamming a state law banning natural gas<\/a> as a \u201cgreen energy scam\u201d that\u2019s thwarting construction and real estate development.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are ruining our economic development in this state,\u201d Blakeman said at a press conference in Brooklyn.\u00a0\u201cWe are creating the housing shortage under the lack of leadership of Kathy Hochul, with the acquiescence of [Mayor] Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

Bruce Blakeman called the natural gas ban \u201ca national embarrassment.\u201d Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s costing residents of New York State billions of dollars,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Blakeman rallied against the aggressive environmental law, which bans installing gas stoves and heating in newly built homes, at a construction site in Carroll Gardens that he said was stalled out by the law.<\/p>\n

The press conference, attended by real estate leaders and elected officials, came after a federal appeals court upheld the ban two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Blakeman called the gas ban \u2014 which applies to new buildings up to seven stories tall beginning this year, and taller buildings by 2029 \u2014 \u201ca national embarrassment\u201d that\u2019s made building new homes in the Empire State nearly impossible.<\/p>\n

The would-be housing complex in Carrol Gardens, planned developer Humberto Lopes, is an example of the law failing, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The housing] was supposed to have gas as part of his electricity and his energy to the building,\u201d Blakeman said of the project. \u201cNow, the city has taken and thrown away his plans, and now, requiring him to go back to the drawing board and make it all electric. It\u2019s dumb. It\u2019s not gonna happen throughout the state. It\u2019s a pipe dream.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d included a ban on installing gas stoves in newly built homes. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a green energy scam. But the fact of the matter is, we do not have enough energy to support going low electric,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t want all electric homes. They don\u2019t want whole electric cars, and if they want them, that\u2019s fine. It can always be an option. But you shouldn\u2019t make people have to do something that they don\u2019t want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blakeman said the gas ban \u2014 which was enacted in 2023<\/a> but has faced several delays \u2014 drives up housing prices and puts New York at the bottom of the country in real estate development.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a national embarrassment, and New York State, the once great Empire State, is now at the bottom of economic development, and it\u2019s because of policies like this.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the gas,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are sitting on one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world here in New York. And we\u2019re not extracting it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The law bans natural gas in new buildings. Christopher Sadowski for New York Post<\/p>\n

New York enacted the nation\u2019s first statewide ban on natural gas in most new construction in May 2023 but it has faced legal battles.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople with electric bills, that bill is gonna be $500 a month every month for the whole entire year, \u201c Lopes said at the press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cMind you, I\u2019m building a building. I not living in there. The tenant is gonna have this bill, just so expensive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Supporters\u00a0of the law have said banning\u00a0 natural gas hookups reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions and improve indoor air quality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A federal appeals court upheld the legislation, dubbed the All Electric Buildings Act, on June 30 after a series of delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s gas stove ban is burning developers! Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman put the heat on Gov.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26689,1626,21845,426,57,9,11,10,49,51,50,58],"class_list":["post-297427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bans","tag-bruce-blakeman","tag-gas","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}