The climate crisis. Horrid! This would be a spectacularly bad time for @NYCMayor and top appointees like @Rit_Aggarwala to loosen enforcement and implementation of the world’s most-important city-level climate/jobs law, Local Law 97.

How could that happen? 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/dzarrilli/status/1675200926590595072

The real estate lobby is whipping up and financing a fear and smear campaign directed at co-op and condo owners. They’re falsely being told the law will saddle them with huge, unmanageable costs.

It’s like the pizza or gas stove thing: corporate PR nonsense.

The non profit advocacy complex. What a world it is.

Bottom line: many groups act like they represent people power or at least public opinion. But most can’t organize lunch for 2. The pols learn they can disregard.

If your group doesn’t organize people, what is its point? Build a multiracial base of involved people! Then organize those people into campaigns that win results by pressing specific decision makers hard.

A “smoke cyclone”. The climate crisis. Meanwhile, @GovKathyHochul just delayed the regulatory process for a state “cap and invest” system.😡

Properly designed, cap & invest saves working people money, creates jobs & slashes pollution. Do your job, Hochul!
This is happening right now as a result of a massive wildfire in Canada. The smoke is serious air pollution-particulate. Causes asthma attacks, heart failures, lung illness and more.

Hochul runs a deep blue state and doesn’t have to worry about republicans. She shouldn’t delay!

The governor recently tried to gut the climate law. The climate movement stopped her.

Now, Hochul is delaying the regulatory process for the centerpiece of the state’s climate plan. The state will probably now break its own law’s statutory deadline.

https://twitter.com/doreen_m_harris/status/1659588928091967488

Properly-designed, a cap and invest program would:

✅put money in working New Yorker’s pockets
✅create massive numbers of good, union jobs
✅slash pollution, everywhere

Instead of trying to weaken the law and delaying action, Hochul should do her job and implement.

The climate crisis. Meanwhile, @GovKathyHochul, governor of a deep blue state, just delayed implementation of cap & invest. NYS will likely break its own climate law. Democrats have super-majorities in the Legislature, and can disregard Republican opposition.

https://twitter.com/weather_west/status/1659704178791583746

Here is a story on Hochul’s little-noticed delay, which means the state will almost certainly meet its statutory deadline to put climate measures into place by the end of the year to slash pollution. This should be big news, but msm usually ignore climate.
politico.com/newsletters/ne…

I want to take a moment to try to explain what the heck’s happening here. (Hint: it’s galactically stupid)

Why is Hochul pushing to gut the state’s climate law?!?!? 🧵

https://twitter.com/m_jfrench/status/1642877999312773120

The state’s climate law requires the state to make a plan, which was due at the end of last year. They did that, tho it’s more of a “plan” than an actual plan.

Now, the state is required by its own law to implement and pass the regulations, laws and programs to do it. /2

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.

I got a bunch of questions yesterday: what’s next in the process on Local Law 97?

1. This particular (big) rule-making is primarily items that must be set into place by the end of the year, as per LL97. This rule will be finalized by then. Major action looms:
🧵 2. Rule-making is governed by city law. The administration develops a proposed rule, then vets it with the law dept. Then they propose it in the city record. This is that page: a856-cityrecord.nyc.gov It’s the city’s version of when the EPA or something makes a rule/regulation.

I will never, ever get over how NY political reporters and elite media tried to smooth Zeldin’s image and push the racist crime panic that (barely) elected Adams. (How’s that going?) They worked it to hype crime and Zeldin. Some observations, threaded below.

https://twitter.com/petesikora1/status/1591769818184794114

How did this work for elite media? First off they joined the tabs and TV to hype crime for the past 2 years.

Equally important: their political “reporters” and “editors” didn’t give a f*** about reality or racism. Instead of doing their nominal civic job of truth-telling …

I can’t recommend enough this @WeAreDrilled @amywestervelt podcast exposing the right wing, fossil-fueled corporate push to force Wall Street entities - @blackrock most of all - to keep pouring money into oil, coal & gas. #StopTheMoneyPipeline 👀👇
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dri… In large part, this effort is a reaction to the campaign work @billmckibben and others have inspired: getting wall street’s biggest players, who are financing and therefore causing the climate crisis, to shave down their investments.

I’d bet good money Goldman got into the #NY10 race knowing his family super rich old money connections to the @nytimes would help get him an inside angle on its endorsement, which matters in the district. He couldn’t win otherwise. Now, he might. Outrageous.

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1559239266546470912

Do I know if his family connections played a direct role? I do not. But I also know that the force of this sort of money and connections is like the pull of gravity. It’s all around us and you don’t necessarily feel it.

@DoctorVive @Fisher_DanaR @mmildenberger @rsgexp @NaomiAKlein @jnoisecat @JooBilly @aldatweets @sunrisemvmt @MobilizeClimate K I’ll try to reply more thoughtfully later or tomorrow @DoctorVive @Fisher_DanaR @mmildenberger @rsgexp @NaomiAKlein @jnoisecat @JooBilly @aldatweets @sunrisemvmt @MobilizeClimate I’m going to send some semi incoherent tweets to this vital question as I sit in my diner coffee Loading ;) I’ll remove everyone else on this thread (others can read later if you want to see some commentary and case study on labor and climate).