Editorial: San Rafael’s needed natural gas ban pullback won’t stop clean energy progress

San Rafael is right to hit the brakes on its 2022 ban on natural gas stoves and connections in new construction.

The City Council vote put it in line with several other Marin cities who declared a gas ban as one of their climate change initiatives.

The city’s goal has been to meet the statewide green mandate and reduce San Rafael’s carbon footprint 40% by 2040.

San Rafael’s decision comes in the wake of a 9th Circuit Court ruling, deciding not to rehear a court’s ruling that overturned Berkeley’s 2019 ban...