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Climate Change: New York City Buildings to Face Greenhouse Gas Limits
NY Times ^ | April 17, 2019 | William Neuman

Posted on 04/17/2019 7:25:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode

New York City is about to embark on an ambitious plan to fight climate change that would force thousands of large buildings, like the Empire State Building and Trump Tower, to sharply reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

The legislation, expected to be passed by the City Council on Thursday, would set emission caps for many different types of buildings, with the goal of achieving a 40 percent overall reduction of emissions by 2030. Buildings that do not meet the caps could face steep fines.

The effort comes as New York, among other states, has undertaken a number of initiatives to reduce carbon emissions, and as the country debates the merits and necessity of the Green New Deal, the congressional proposal to tackle climate change and create new high-paying jobs in clean energy industries.

But New York City’s move — opposed by real estate industry executives in part because of the associated costs to meet the new targets — may be unprecedented, according to John Mandyck, the chief executive of the Urban Green Council, an umbrella group that includes real estate developers and environmental groups, among others.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: aoc; climatechange; cowfart; cowfarts; fakescience; globalwarming; greenhousegas; greenhousegasses; greennewdeal; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc
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To: EdnaMode

No carbon emissions from a vacant building. Unless you count squatter farts.


21 posted on 04/17/2019 7:51:29 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: PallMal

I recommend they put a pilot program of this into Gracie Mansion and City Hall...

But I bet they will be exempted.


22 posted on 04/17/2019 7:58:28 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: EdnaMode
US CO2 emissions are up 0.4%... total.... since 1990.
EU CO2 emissions are DOWN... 19.5%... since 1990.
UK CO2 emissions are DOWN... 35.6%... since 1990.
Ukraine CO2 emissions are DOWN... 73.7%... since 1990.

China's CO2 emissions are up... 353%... since 1990.
India's CO2 emissions are up... 305%... since 1990.
Saudi's CO2 emissions are up... 284%... since 1990.
Iran's CO2 emissions are up... 224%... since 1990.
Indonesia's CO2 emissions are up... 215%... since 1990. (pop. 260m, #4 on earth)
Pakistan's CO2 emissions are up... 197%... since 1990.
Egypt's CO2 emissions are up... 185%... since 1990.

But the West is the problem... ahem...

cite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions

23 posted on 04/17/2019 8:14:43 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

But the West is the problem

just like the insanity with plastic bags


24 posted on 04/17/2019 8:17:15 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Teacher317

The thing of it it’s all a hoax so there is no problem anyway.


25 posted on 04/17/2019 8:18:17 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: EdnaMode

What are they going to do, put a tax on flatulence? Tell people that they have to breathe less?


26 posted on 04/17/2019 8:20:17 PM PDT by vette6387 (Try Pelosi for Treason)
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To: EdnaMode

I for one appreciate NYC sacrificing itself to the #FakeScience gods.


27 posted on 04/17/2019 8:25:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: EdnaMode

LOL !

One more for the pile of innumerable reasons to be grateful not to live in that communist shithole.


28 posted on 04/17/2019 8:32:35 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: butlerweave
"London England makes you pay a lot of money everyday if you drive your dirty polluting car/truck into central London"

And NY City will soon be charging a congestion fee for those who want to come into the city.

29 posted on 04/17/2019 8:35:14 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: EdnaMode

here it comes folks, heavy heavy fines taxes regulations for C02 production


30 posted on 04/17/2019 8:44:15 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: butlerweave
"The legislation, expected to be passed by the City Council on Thursday, would set emission caps for many different types of buildings, with the goal of achieving a 40 percent overall reduction of emissions by 2030. Buildings that do not meet the caps could face steep fines.

...but wait! Didn't AOC tell us we only have 12 years to save the Earth?

2030 (deadline to renovate 40% of NYC)
-2019 (countdown begins)
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11 years.

Whew! It'll be close

31 posted on 04/17/2019 8:50:24 PM PDT by pigsmith (Liberals can't make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them.)
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To: EdnaMode
I lived in NYC, 3 different apartments.

One was a 1 bedroom, 3rd floor walk-up.

The heating consisted of an iron pipe that went from the floor to the ceiling in the bedroom.

There was no thermostat; just hot water (very hot water; the pipe was exceedingly hot to the touch).

The only way to adjust the temperature in the apartment was to open windows otherwise you'd bake like in an oven.

BTUs went out the open window daily.

There are thousands of heating systems like that in NYC apartments.

32 posted on 04/17/2019 8:50:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: EdnaMode

How many people live in NYC?

Make it Illegal for them to Fart and it will have more of an impact.


33 posted on 04/17/2019 8:52:52 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: varyouga

Breaking all the windows in America would create lots of work, too. And just as much benefit.


34 posted on 04/17/2019 9:06:31 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: EdnaMode
😂😂😂😂🏭🐴💩
35 posted on 04/17/2019 9:17:36 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: EdnaMode

Solar panels
Tell con Ed to truck off !


36 posted on 04/17/2019 9:48:40 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: EdnaMode

Women have more freedom to have abortions than those who want to control the temperatures in their buildings. When the Left uses hoax to push their control over people’s lives, it is time to push back hard.


37 posted on 04/17/2019 9:55:01 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: EdnaMode

Communist supported de Blasio and NYC driving the last of the productive people and organizations out.


38 posted on 04/18/2019 1:44:05 AM PDT by PIF (They camTo think the choice came down to Gorka/Bannon oe for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: EdnaMode

I guess the subways are fixed if they can move on to this important issue


39 posted on 04/18/2019 3:44:54 AM PDT by wny
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To: wny

Who determines if a building is meeting the new requirement? Countless variables involved. This would be a good method of political retribution. Owners of buildings who the mayor does not like could be subject to endless fines.


40 posted on 04/18/2019 4:22:35 AM PDT by Stevenfo
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