ars, and if they want them, that's fine. It can always be an option. But you shouldn't make people have to do something that they don't want. 

Blakeman said the gas ban - which was enacted in 2023 but has faced several delays - drives up housing prices and puts New York at the bottom of the country in real estate development.

 It's a national embarrassment, and New York State, the once great Empire State, is now at the bottom of economic development, and it's because of policies like this.

 We have the gas,  he said.  We are sitting on one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world here in New York. And we're not extracting it. 

3 The law bans natural gas in new buildings. Christopher Sadowski for New York Post

New York enacted the nation's first statewide ban on natural gas in most new construction in May 2023 but it has faced legal battles.

 People with electric bills, that bill is gonna be $500 a month every month for the whole entire year,   Lopes said at the press conference.

 Mind you, I'm building a building. I not living in there. The tenant is gonna have this bill, just so expensive,  he said.

Supporters of the law have said banning natural gas hookups reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions and improve indoor air quality.

A federal appeals court upheld the legislation, dubbed the All Electric Buildings Act, on June 30 after a series of delays.