Thread by @PeteSikora1

The Mayor & his ppl should stop dodging & set regulations to fully implement/enforce Local Law 97. He must choose working people, not the real estate lobby. Tens of thousands of jobs & massive pollution cuts - plus NYC’s continued nat’l leadership- are at stake. #GreenNewDeal4NYC

https://twitter.com/sssmaldo/status/1592516302920421377

The Administration should use its authority under the law to limit RECs as a compliance mechanism with the law to:
1. only up only up to 30% of the pollution *over* a building’s cap, and 2. only pollution generated from electrical use.

If the Admin doesn’t believe it has the authority - and it does - then the Mayor should immediately support this position and work with the Council to set it into place as law. But to re-emphasize: they should make this rule.

Stop dodging! There’s too much at stake.

People can go look at the law’s language just do a search for “renewable energy credit” in the text. You’ll see the admin is directed to set rules. That’s authority.

If they don’t agree: it’ll be very easy to change the law if the mayor and experts/advocates/council agree. The missing element here is the Mayor, and this talk of lack of authority blurs the issue.

Also: if they think they don’t have authority to limit RECs then why are they setting a rule that limits RECs to electric-only. Are they only allowed to do things that rebny supports? Is that the Mayor and Administration’s position?

The law’s purpose and intent is absolutely clear. See @nychange testimony to the rule making for more detail, including direct quotes to this point:

docs.google.com/document/d/12v…