SoCal Gas and business groups have been lobbying heavily against rules to phase out gas furnaces and water heaters in homes.

New regulations could add hundreds of dollars to the cost of installing gas-powered furnaces and water heaters.

Detroit was consuming 80,000 tons of iron to produce 450,000 wood, coal, and coke stoves and ranges, and 250,000 gas stoves, an innovation first displayed in Detroit in 1866. The Michigan Stove Co ...