Jot Condie

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked the City of Berkeley from enacting a natural gas piping ban in the case California Restaurant Association, or CRA, v. City of Berkeley.

The California Restaurant Association, or CRA, filed an appeal Aug. 4 against a July district court ruling supporting Berkeley’s ban on natural gas. 

A federal judge for the Northern District of California dismissed the California Restaurant Association’s complaint challenging Berkeley’s natural gas ban. 

A group of environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club, wrote a letter Wednesday to the California Restaurant Association, or CRA, asking it to drop its lawsuit against the city of Berkeley’s gas ban ordinance.