Hundreds of New Yorkers showed up to a virtual meeting held by the Department of Buildings (DOB) on Monday urging the agency to strengthen its proposed emissions rules for the landmark climate legislation Local Law 97.
DOB last month released its proposed rules for Local Law 97 of 2019, which requires all buildings in the city over 25,000 square feet to meet tough new limits on carbon emissions by 2024, and for landlords to retrofit their buildings in order to meet those mandates. Considered one of the most ambitious local climate laws on earth, owners of large buildings must drop their emissions at least 40% by 2030 to comply.
“As proposed in these rules, an electrical-only REC limit guts the law. It would cost New Yorkers tens of thousands of jobs and air pollution reductions, including many good, future union jobs,” said Pete Sikora, climate campaign director at New York Communities for Change, in testimony to DOB on Monday. “
The law, passed in 2019, included RECs as a legal requirement for the program within its text, noted DOB’s Deputy Commissioner for Sustainability, Laura Popa, in closing remarks to the hourslong hearing — but the agency still plans to issue further rules placing greater limitations on the use of RECs before any final regulations are approved.
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