Post-election, the debate over natural gas access is far from over
Election results are still coming in for Washington’s tightest races.
Most of the voter initiatives went down to defeat this year. But one -- Initiative 2066 -- is poised for success.
It targets natural gas regulations by rolling back pieces of a big law forcing Puget Sound Energy to explore electrification and likely knocking down new building codes that makes installing natural gas in new construction harder.
It’s passing by a slim margin: just over 3 percentage points.
But not so fast, because opponents of 2066 say they’re gearing up to take the issue of natural gas from the ballot to the…
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