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Boston mayor bans 'fossil fuels' in new city-owned buildings to advance 'racial and economic justice'
theblaze.com ^ | August 1, 2023 | ANDREW CHAPADOS

Posted on 08/02/2023 8:53:46 AM PDT by lowbridge

The executive order was announced in a press release and will eliminate "the Use of Fossil Fuels in New Construction and Major Renovations of City Buildings."

The goal is "accelerating climate action by requiring that all new municipal buildings and major renovations operate without fossil fuels." The press release also claimed the move would reduce "emissions from Boston’s building sector while creating high-quality jobs, improving public health and quality of life, and advancing racial and economic justice."

All new buildings in the city must be planned, designed, and constructed using non-combustion for cooking (stoves/ovens), HVAC, and hot water apparatuses.

The mayor claimed that recent weather means that there isn't much time to make quick political changes.

“Week after week, we see the signs of extreme heat, storms, and flooding that remind us of a closing window to take climate action,” said Wu. “The benefits of embracing fossil fuel-free infrastructure in our City hold no boundary across industries and communities, and Boston will continue using every possible tool to build the green, clean, healthy, and prosperous future our city deserves.”

The ordinance also sets emission standards for what are categorized as "large existing buildings," which also require all covered and municipal buildings to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

The announcement boasted work by Oliver Sellers-Garcia, who is the city's first "Green New Deal director," a role the city created to make sure it was aligning with a radical climate agenda first promoted by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2019.

The role officially "works across the City to advance climate action through strategies that address social, racial, and economic inequality."

“As part of the Green New Deal for Boston, we are taking an all-of-government approach,

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; globalwarminghoax; tyranny
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To: lowbridge

I tell you, NOTHING says “racial and economic justice” like preventing poor minorities from accessing cheap, plentiful energy.


21 posted on 08/02/2023 9:06:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: lowbridge

Where is all this electricity coming from...do we have to have a kite and key on our roof?


22 posted on 08/02/2023 9:07:47 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: lowbridge
A dude with a hyphenated last name....if he ain't gay he should be
23 posted on 08/02/2023 9:09:12 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: MtnClimber

Pull the meter and jumper it.


24 posted on 08/02/2023 9:12:08 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: lowbridge

“ The press release also claimed the move would reduce “emissions from Boston’s building sector while creating high-quality jobs, improving public health and quality of life, and advancing racial and economic justice.”

This is utter BS nonsense. Building new buildings use the same jobs regardless of what furnace you install. It will also unneedlessly INCREASE costs as they’ll have to use more expensive (and less efficient) AC and heating units which will surely NOT help quality of life and makes the whole infrastructure more fragile which does not help public health!

How this advances racial “equity” is anyone’s guess.


25 posted on 08/02/2023 9:12:23 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: lowbridge
The idiots pushing this radical, high-cost agenda will be the first to complain when there's no affordable housing being built in Boston and businesses and people flee the city to find sanity elsewhere.
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Every single one has its own self-inflicted extreme liberal pathologies. Which will hit bottom first?
26 posted on 08/02/2023 9:13:06 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: lowbridge

Oh look another Dingbat


27 posted on 08/02/2023 9:15:13 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: lowbridge

Bump

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28 posted on 08/02/2023 9:15:14 AM PDT by Mears (.)
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To: EEGator
Pull the meter and jumper it.

I would be able to safely do that, but a low-income housing tenant?

29 posted on 08/02/2023 9:16:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: jpp113

We have the same nonsense and worse in the Puget Sound region near Seattle. How is it that greenies do not understand that it is much less efficient to generate electricity largely from natural gas and coal, use transformers to step up the voltage for transmission, send it all through transmission lines, then use more transformers to step the voltage back down for use, and then convert it back to heat. There are losses all along the way. Advocates claim that the higher efficiency of heat pumps mitigate this, and within very specific temperature ranges this has some validity, but engineers have already figured this out, and large buildings have a combination of heating sources which make the best use of resources.

All idiot politicians and activists do is screw good system designs up. This is of course nothing but shameful feel-good lunacy that accomplishes nothing worthwhile.


30 posted on 08/02/2023 9:17:05 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’ve seen butter knife blades in Chester PA.
Chester is worse than Philly.


31 posted on 08/02/2023 9:17:39 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: lowbridge

She has no clue about the things made from Oil or using Oil to make ,LOL


32 posted on 08/02/2023 9:18:13 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Parley Baer

It is NOT insane.

It is evil.

Bostonians, you want to save your city?

Get rid of electronic voting machines and secure your damn elections.


33 posted on 08/02/2023 9:19:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: lowbridge

This is a good thing.

Liberal cities are dying, from multiple dumb ideas. But, it’s taking too long.

So, construction that evades fossil-fuel usage in buildings, is one way to hurry up the eventual death of those cities. All blue cities should follow Boston’s lead and the U.S. will be a better place without them.


34 posted on 08/02/2023 9:19:51 AM PDT by adorno
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To: lowbridge

If this is true, how long will it take for the harm to filter down and force more people to flee to Florida?

I hope for Florida’s sake that Boston sends the best of the best, or at least the best of the worse.


35 posted on 08/02/2023 9:20:19 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: MtnClimber

This country is turning into China!


36 posted on 08/02/2023 9:21:52 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: lowbridge

Our family left Boston around 1900 ,LOL


37 posted on 08/02/2023 9:22:07 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: lowbridge

So any and all support equipment, new construction or renovations, must have no component or process in making them that EVER involved “fossil fuels”. Fookin’ idjits!


38 posted on 08/02/2023 9:22:13 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: mewzilla

And while they’re at it, ban illegal aliens from voting and turn them over to ICE to be deported!


39 posted on 08/02/2023 9:22:36 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: lowbridge

Will the steel, glass, and concrete in the new construction also be made without fossil fuels?

If not, why not?


40 posted on 08/02/2023 9:25:00 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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