New Yorkers to stop paying for other people’s gas hookups under new bill

Published on June 25, 2025

New York just took a major step to put gas in the past. Last week, legislators repealed a decades-old rule incentivizing new gas connections. Currently, building owners who are within 100 feet of an existing gas main line can get a new gas hookup at no out-of-pocket expense; instead, the costs of these new…