Petaluma City in North Carolina, is believed to be the first in the USA to ban all new fuel stations. The City Council voted unanimously Monday to prohibit the creation, expansion, reconstruction and relocation of fuel stations, encouraging owners of stations to convert their facilities into ones that serve electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The city of 58,000 people 40 miles north of San Francisco hopes to become carbon neutral by 2030. "We need to do our part to help mitigate and adapt to our changing weather patterns that exist because of all the carbon we put in the atmosphere," Councilwoman D'Lynda Fischer, who spearheaded the initiative, said Tuesday.
"I hope other cities will follow suit, and if they have existing fossil fuel stations that satisfy the needs of their community, they too will decide that they don't need any more," Fischer said. Petaluma has 16 gas stations, with one more expected to be built as part of a grocery store. It had been approved before the vote.
Original story California city bans construction of new gas stations in climate-fight first - CBS News
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