Los Angeles may ban new gas stations to help combat climate emergency

The city famous for its car culture could quit building fossil fuel infrastructure – and it would be the largest city to do so yet

Los Angeles could become the largest city to prohibit the construction of new gas stations, joining a movement that seeks to limit fossil fuels at the local level as part of efforts to combat the climate crisis.

Officials in America’s second largest city, along with Bethlehem, New York, and Comox valley regional district, British Columbia, said on Wednesday morning that they were working on policies to stop the development of new fossil fuel infrastructure.